Raipur: A 26-year-old police constable, suspected of involvement in alleged irregularities within the ongoing constable recruitment drive in Chhattisgarh’s Rajnandgaon, was discovered lifeless on Saturday, police stated on Sunday.
The incident has triggered political uproar, with Congress demanding a high-level probe.
The deceased, a local of Mahasamund district, was stationed on the Jalbandha police outpost within the Khairagarh-Chhuikhadan-Gandai (KCG) space. He had just lately been assigned obligation for the constable recruitment drive.
“He was discovered hanging from a tree in Rampur village close to Rajnandgaon,” stated superintendent of police (SP) Mohit Garg, including that his household was knowledgeable.
Police stated {that a} word written on the constable’s left palm alleged that lower-level workers had been being framed within the recruitment rip-off, whereas senior officers had been being shielded.
“Prima facie, it seems to be a case of suicide, however additional investigations are ongoing,” Garg stated.
The constable recruitment drive for the Rajnandgaon police vary, which covers 4 districts—Rajnandgaon, KCG, Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki, and Kabirdham—started on November 16 on the eighth Battalion of the Chhattisgarh Armed Drive (CAF). The method is being carried out with technical help from Hyderabad-based Timing Know-how Firm.
Garg stated that the corporate is answerable for offering all technical tools, managing knowledge entry and storage, and controlling entry to recruitment knowledge.
Discrepancies in marks awarded in the course of the Bodily Effectivity Check (PET) just lately got here to mild, prompting the submitting of an FIR and the removing of a number of personnel, together with Ratnakar, from obligation.
Deputy SP Tanupriya Thakur, who oversaw the shot put occasion in the course of the PET, filed the FIR on December 17 after discovering anomalies in a candidate’s marks.
Whereas the FIR didn’t identify particular people, it instructed potential involvement of technical staff members, police personnel, and others.
The deceased’s brother alleged that the constable had informed him over the telephone on Friday that he was being falsely accused of involvement within the recruitment fraud.
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“He stated the constable accused senior officers of orchestrating the rip-off whereas framing lower-level employees,” stated an officer.
Former chief minister Bhupesh Baghel, in a social media publish, highlighted the word discovered on the constable’s hand.
“The assertion ‘workers are being framed, officers are being saved’ is alarming. This reveals corruption has taken place, and senior officers are concerned. A radical investigation is important,” Baghel stated.
The case stays underneath investigation, with authorities questioning police personnel and the technical staff concerned within the recruitment course of.
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