MUMBAI: The vigilance department of the Department of Posts has
unearthed a mega scam in recruitment for over 2,400 vacancies, in Maharashtra. The Mumbai police registered an FIR in August against Manipal Technologies Ltd
(MTL), which had won a bid in 2015 to conduct the recruitment process
for postmen, mail guards and other staffers in the postal department.
The FIR was filed on the basis of a complaint by an assistant post
master general in Mumbai and names P V Mallya and other directors of
MTL. Dubbing it a big scam, Justice A M Badar of the Bombay high court
refused to grant pre-arrest bail to Mallya on November 3.
He said, "The case in hand appears to be a case of a big scam in
recruitment in the department of posts... Selection to public employment
has to be a fair and impartial process, based on merit of eligible
candidates... This job was entrusted by DoP with utmost trust on the
company... Prima facie, it is seen that, the company has breached the
trust reposed by it and had shown nepotism and partiality in selecting
candidates for obvious reasons.''
The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) said that the selection process had
been cancelled in Maharashtra. No one has been arrested so far. Police
are interrogating the project managers from the company which was in
charge of the recruitment process.
The exam was conducted in March 2015 and the results were declared in
March 2016. It was held to fill in 1,680 posts of postmen, 21 mail
guards and 733 multitask servants (MTS).
The chief postmaster general had ordered a vigilance enquiry when an
Amravati postmaster first complained last April that a postman selected
through the recruitment process had a photograph of a different
candidate on his online application form.
The vigilance report said that 25 of the 194 postmen posted in
Maharashtra scored high in Marathi, but didn't know the language and
over 70 candidates were found with identical email addresses.
Few of the selected candidates had not appeared for the exam, others
had not signed the paper or their signatures online and on the answer
paper differed; addresses of some candidates were identical, and cell
phone numbers were the same for some, said the vigilance report.
Of the 24 selected as postmen,12 had identical cell phone numbers; of
21 selected as MTS, 11 did. Candidates selected from states other than
Maharashtra, such as Haryana, Bihar, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, had
addresses from a same locality, said the FIR.
Source : https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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