11 held for impersonation

The CBI teams found four impersonators,while three others identified by the centre staff were also transferred to the investigating agency’s custody. One candidate,at whose behest someone had proxied,was caught.

“An invigilator got suspicious when a candidate attempted 75 questions in only 20 minutes. When confronted,the candidate said he was from Haryana. However,when he was asked about the name of his village and caste,he got confused as he was actually from Bihar. After verification of the application form,it was discovered that he was impersonating a candidate from Haryana who is his relative,” said a source.

As many as 68 CCTV cameras,24 duty magistrates and 800 police personnel were involved in the exercise. It has been decided that signatures of those selected in the final list will be sent to the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) and their signatures on application forms will be cross checked as against those on the examination sheets. Also,the CCTV footage of those who appeared in the examination will be looked into at the time of preparation of final list of selected candidates.

One of the impersonators is a BA first-year student of DAV College,Chandigarh; two of the impersonators came from Bihar. Rest of the proxy writers came from various parts of Haryana.

At the request of CBI,the admit cards of all the candidates were retained for further probe. The number of impersonators is likely to increase after investigations conclude. Some of the arrested have been identified as Rinkoo,resident of Bihar,who was caught impersonating for Sonu,a resident of Jind; Pawan Kumar,who proxied for Sukhwinder Singh of Haryana; Deepak Dahiya,who took the examination in place of Ravinder Singh Dahiya (he was arrested,too); Vikas Kumar,Meutan Kumar Bharti,Sanjay and Amit Kumar.