Delhi L-G Orders CBI Probe Into Irregularities In Govt School Teachers' Recruitment

Delhi Lieutenant Governor has ordered a CBI probe into alleged irregularities in recruitment of teachers in a government-aided school.

Delhi LG VK Saxena has ordered a CBI probe to look into irregularities in teacher recruitment

Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena has ordered an inquiry by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the alleged irregularities in the recruitment of seven teachers in Delhi Government-aided school, said the LG’s office on Thursday. It has been alleged that the teachers were recruited using forged documents, said the LG office, adding that all the teachers have been terminated. 

The LG has constituted a committee to study the recruitment process in Government-aided schools and suggest measures to streamline the process of recruitment, it added. 

The inquiry order comes months after the federal probe agency registered a case against a Delhi government aided school, run by Vedic Sanskrit Agricultural Education Society, in June this year to investigate the alleged irregularities in the recruitment process of 16 teachers. 

LG orders CBI inquiry into the appointment of seven teachers in Delhi Government-aided school, using forged documents, also orders the termination of these teachers. LG constitutes a Committee to study the recruitment process in Government-aided schools and suggest measures to…

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As per an NDTV report, Vedic Sanskrit Agriculture Senior Secondary School recruited 16 teachers against 18 vacancies out of which the CBI alleged that six of them were made on the basis of  forged documents and with the involvement of Krishan Rana, then chairman of the school's management committee.

The preliminary investigation report which was accessed by NDTV stated that one Praveen Bazad, who was selected for Political Science had been convicted in a criminal case of cheating in SSC Examination which he did not disclose while applying for the post. 

The report also alleged that his master degree from Kalinga University “prima facie seems to be forged as he never attended the said college."

The report named three other applicants, Sonia, Pratibha and Manish Kumar, stating that they forged their experience certificate from Jim Corbett Senior Secondary School in Kathgodam, Uttarakhand as per the report. 

In its investigation report, the CBI had also framed officials of the Directorate of Education of Delhi Government for the probe into alleged criminal conspiracy and forgery.