A Delhi court sentenced three persons to three years in jail and imposed varying fines on them for forging employment exchange records in order to secure jobs for some in the Income Tax department under the OBC quota. Additional Sessions Judge Narinder Kumar overturned an order of a Magistrates court,which had acquitted the trio. The case was registered on the basis of a complaint sent to police in 1994 by the Directorate of Employment. The complaint stated that a list of candidates had been sought from the employment exchanges for the post of a gardener and peons at the Income Tax department. But the lists received from the employment exchanges were all allegedly forged,the complaint said. After a case was registered,three government officials and a man claiming to be a farmer were arrested. In an order passed in 2010,an Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate had held that there was no evidence on record to connect the accused persons with the preparation of the forged lists. The Sessions Court,however,ruled that there was enough evidence to convict the three Sanjeevan Mittal,Chaman Lal Sharma and Gayur Ali. The court held that the gravity of the offence committed by them forging the names of bogus candidates in place of genuine candidates who were eligible for the job meant that no probation could be granted to the convicts. The convicts eroded the credibility of the process,followed by Employment Exchanges in sponsoring the names of candidates to different employers from time to time, the court observed.
