Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 11: The crime branch (CB) of police today produced a supplementary chargesheet in the court of special judge, anti-corruption, Jammu, against the alleged accused in the much publicised ETT scam.
The accused included Unique ETT Institute's promoter Chhanga Ram, son of Kasturi Lal of Parwah, Marh, Guru Kirpa ETT Institute's Harpreet Singh, son of Daljeet Singh of Gandhi Nagar, Lal Man Khajuria, son of Mansa Ram Khajuria of Gandhi Nagar, of H R D Institute of Education, Kathua, Kuldeep Singh Chib, son of Faiju Ram Chib of Greater Kailash (at present Ambica Vihar) of Medicas ETT Institute, Kunjwani, Raj Mohini Sharma, wife of Ved Parkash of Apna Vihar, of Sarvodya Institute of Teacher Training, Bari Brahmana, and two board officials - then joint secretary (general) JD, BOSE, Harish Kumar Gupta, son of Malik Ram Gupta of Chhani Himmat, and then director academics, BOSE (now retired), Bashir Ahmed Dar, son of Abdul Ahad Dar of Alhuda Lane, Khayam, Srinagar. The scam came to CB notice through a September 3, 2013 communication of BOSE Chairman, which was addressed to its IGP, Srinagar. The communication also carried with it an inquiry report of Joint Secretary, legal, (KD), J&K Board of School Education, Srinagar. On the basis of this inquiry report, CB registered a case and initiated a probe. It was alleged that the ETT institutes were involved in a huge scandal where money in hundreds of crores exchanges hands as bribe and almost all persons are involved in the loot. All sorts of malpractices were committed as neither registration of candidates was done in time nor classes were started. Hostel facilities were also not provided to the students. The candidates are lured and a huge amount ranging between Rs 45,000 to 80,000 is taken from every student each year for the two-year course through touts for providing them degrees and certificates by the erring institutions which do not fulfil even the basic norms and standards laid down by the National Council for Teachers Education (NCTE), but have been allowed to run this course. NOCs were issued to these institutes which are only given after their periodic inspections by the government for basic infrastructure purposes and NOC by the BOSE for academic purposes. This became known that a huge scandal was being run by a mafia in league with J&K Board of School Education authorities, who in furtherance of a criminal conspiracy with the management of these institutions were alleged to have dishonestly and fraudulently granted them affiliation in gross violation of the norms to confer undue benefits upon them by abusing their official position. On the receipt of this complaint, the CB registered a case in this connection under sections 420, 468, 471 and 120-B of RPC read with section 5(2) of P C Act Svt. 2006 and started investigation. (JNF) |
