Two proxy candidates from Haryana have been arrested by Jorhat Police on Sunday on charges of appearing in a recruitment examination held for Grade-IV posts, Multi-Tasking Staff of Rain Forest Research Institute.
Jorhat police station officer-in-charge Ananta Das said, “Charan Singh and Amit Singh reportedly hailing from Jind district of Haryana have been arrested while two of their associates, including a lady, have been picked up for interrogation.”
Therefore, a case was registered No: 2725/2020 under Sections 120 (B), 417, 419, 468 and 479 of the IPC.
As per sources, a group of 12 people, including the arrested duo had come from Haryana, most of them had accompanied the two, as per preliminary investigation.
Charan had allegedly appeared for one Anil of Haryana while Amit appeared for Dipak, also from Haryana at the Jorhat Government Girls’ Multi-Purpose Higher Secondary School, one of the four examination centres in Jorhat.
The incident came to light after a female candidate raised an alarm as Charan took out a mobile phone during the examination time. The invigilators immediately asked him to produce his identification papers which did not tally with the person who was supposed to sit for the exam.
However, the invigilator and other officials at the centre handed Charan over to police personnel deployed at the centre and later during interrogation his fake identity was revealed, another proxy candidate Amit was detected from the same centre and was taken away by police.
