The eclipse of infamous “Vyapam” scam of Madhya Pradesh has been haunting the recruitment process of assistant teachers for the Junior Basic Schools of primary education department in the Uttar Pradesh too. The process of 69000 assistant teachers through recruitment examination-2019 has been marred with serious allegations of corruption vitiating the sanctity of examination, objective evaluation of answer sheets and fair process of selection. At every stage of the selection process the sanctity of impartial and unbiased selection remained in clouds of doubts pointing finger with allegations of high level connivance and conspiracy behind it motivated with extraneous considerations.The Uttar Pradesh police on 9th June, handed over investigation into the alleged irregularities in the recruitment of 69,000 government teachers to a special task force as the issue took a political turn with Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra attacked the chief minister Yogi Adityanath. Expressing her solidarity with the candidates, she alleged that exam paper leaks and irregularities in marking had become the norm in the state. She said CM Yogi Adityanath should take responsibility for the candidates.
The recruitment examination-2019 has been embroiled in quagmire of litigation since its very inception, and fresh controversies have erupted at each stage of the process which have engaged the attention of the High Court as well as the Hon’ble Supreme Court. The highly powerful sharks of the scams had conveniently survived the investigations of red-handed crackdown at a prominent examination centre of state capital and recovered sufficient evidences of the paper leak along with answer keys of “Set A paper” with complete trail of money from the many candidates appeared in the examination.
The Special Tasks Force (STF) of UP Police during recruitment examinations 2019 of assistant teachers in Lucknow on 6th January 2019 arrested a principal of National Inter College Umashankar Singh along with 13 other accused involved in the state wide network exposed during raids and trail of Whatsapp massages and cash money and 13 cheques were recovered from kingpin of scam Arun Kumar Singh.
Hazratganj police with its Inspector Radha Raman Singh also assisted STF operations and an FIR under Sections 34, 120-B, 409 and 420 IPC and Section 66 of Information Technology Act bearing crime No 0019 of 2019 was registered against these arrested accused by the Inspector STF Brijendra Sharma. But the case seems to be hashed up due to high level intervention as no further progress ever come to light in answer keys leak case to the prospective candidates for which money transactions took place helping them pass the exam through illegal means.
