Koraput/Sambalpur, April 8: fter Bolangir, allegations of submission of fake certificates by aspirants to secure postal jobs have now been reported from Sambalpur district. Sambalpur Town Police has registered a case based on the complaint filed by the Postal department superintendent against six job aspirants, following which the arrests were made.
Police have started an investigation into the incident. The six aspirants are reportedly from Bargarh, Bhadrak, Jagatsinghpur, Kalahandi, and Deogarh districts.
Recently Sambalpur postal department had come up with an advertisement for recruitment for 96 posts. The candidates, against whom the complaint has been lodged, had furnished documents that showed that they had studied in Hindi medium board in Uttar Pradesh. But interestingly they mentioned that they had also studied Odia as a subject. This raised the suspicion of postal authorities and a police complaint was lodged against them.
According to information, a total of 32 candidates had been chosen for appointment as Branch Postmaster and Assistant Branch Postmaster. However, 23 certificates were found to be fake ones during scrutiny. Following this, an FIR was lodged at the Jeypor police station on behalf of the postal department.
Acting on the complaint, a team of Jeypore police conducted investigation and arrested four persons. Investigation is still on, said police.
As per initial reports, all six aspirants have submitted certificates from some educational institutes in Uttar Pradesh. All of them had applied for Gramin Dak Sevak posts.
It is pertinent to mention here that similar allegations of submission of fake certificates to secure jobs have been reported from Bolangir, Kalahandi, Nuapada, Kandhamal, and Kendrapara districts.
