13 arrested in CTU recruitment scam

About 85% of appointments were done on the basis of impersonation.

Thirteen people were today arrested from different parts of Haryana in connection with the Chandigarh Transport Undertaking (CTU) recruitment scam.

“The arrests were made in connection with the scam in recruitment of 144 conductors last year. About 85 per cent of the appointments were done on the basis of impersonation,” Chandigarh Police Chief Naunihal Singh said.

“We are also probing whether there were some professional groups involved in the impersonation,” he said. Among those arrested,two are middlemen who arranged the impersonators by charging between Rs 15,000 and Rs three lakh from each candidate,he said,adding,”More arrests are likely to be made soon.”

A Special Investigative Team constituted to probe the scam,which came to surface in October last year,had sent samples of handwriting of 113 selected candidates to Central Forensic Science Laboratory in New Delhi,which found that 66 specimens did not match with the candidates’ handwriting.

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