Hamirpur, Dec 31 – Two more people Shashi Pal, the brother of tout Sanjaeev Kumar and Nitin Azad, the second brother of Uma Azad, the main accused have been arrested by the Vigilance department in Himachal Staff Selection Commission paper scam case.
With this, the total number of those arrested in this case has risen to eight.
An official spokesman said Saturday that the latest action was taken late at night by the Vigilance department following getting details from those who were quizzed by the police in the case.
Notably, Uma Azad, the senior assistant of HP staff selection commission and five others including her son and her servant were arrested by the Vigilance bureau in the paper leak case last week.
While Uma Azad and Sanjeev are on police remand, others are in judicial custody.
Meanwhile, the Vigilance is still receiving complaints from many more youths and on the basis of them, the police investigation team is probing other cases as well. Since the main accused Uma Azad was doing this work, it has become necessary for the vigilance team to reveal its secret. Because, according to the complaints that are being received, there is a possibility of many more revelations.
Meanwhile, sleuths of the Vigilance bureau continued to grill Titendra Kanwar, the former Secretary of the Commission for the second day on Friday till late in night. The sleuths also searched his safe where secret documents were kept in the presence of ADC, Hamirpur, Jitendra Sanjta who was deputed as OSD to the commission by the state government. Many documents have been taken into custody by the SIT of the Vigilance bureau from the safe of the secretary of the commission.
On other hand, many big revelations are expected in the investigation of the ‘High Level Inquiry’ committee constituted as SIT to investigate the scam in Himachal Staff Selection Commission recruitment. Due to whose connivance, there were disturbances in the Commission. Who harmed the internal system? Were the leaders made special appointments in their constituencies?
Due to the suspension of the functioning of the board after the paper leak case and the investigation by the SIT, there has been a complete break on the new recruitments of the commission. Many results are yet to come.
More than 10 categories of written examinations are to be held. Naib Tehsildar rank paper was also held on October 30, but why the result has not been declared yet due to the latest orders of the state government as it wanted to get complete details of the scams that were committed in the commission from time to time.
Sources in the state government told UNI today that the Chief Minister, Sukhvinder Singh Sukhoo is taking personal interest in the SIT inquiry into the paper leak scam and it is being told everything on a daily basis.