Chennai: Investigators from CBI arrested three employees of Chennai income tax office for allegedly getting appointed by indulging in malpractice in Staff Selection Commission (SSC) recruitment process.
This newspaper had exposed the long running recruitment scam in Staff Selection Commission, the government body that recruits group B posts to all central ministries and departments, in July this year.
The arrested were identified as Devendra Kumar, Piyush Kumar and Chandan Kumar, all hailing from Bihar and joined the department as multi task staff after ‘appearing’ for the SSC examination in 2013-14.
The SSC is the government body that recruits group B posts to all central ministries and departments. The three had impersonated at examination halls. Exams were written by somebody else for these men, who had given lakhs to a syndicate running in Bihar, sources said.
CBI had probed the findings by the IT officials during the last four months and now zeroed in on the three men. “It could be the tip of the iceberg. CBI and income tax department believe that there could be more people who had joined the department through malpractices,” sources said adding that more arrests are expected.
Income tax officials in Chennai stumbled on the fraud in February this year when a youth from Vaishali district in Bihar came to join as the multi task staff in Chennai office. The candidate who appeared for the examination, conducted by SSC, was different from the person who reached the IT office to join duty. The script in handwritten self-declaration and thumb impression given at the examination hall did not match with that of the person who came to join duty.
An enquiry with him revealed that he had given Rs 3 lakh to a syndicate to write the SSC examination for him. He also revealed that the ‘fee’ for multi tasking staff was Rs 3 lakh while the ‘fee’ for writing examination for the post of inspectors was Rs 20 lakh. When officials at the Ayakar Bhavan at Nungambakkam here refused to allow him to join duty, he returned home. After DC carried a report in July about the recruitment scam, the case was handed over to CBI.
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