NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation has filed a case to probe selection and appointment of 34 persons in Indian Army on the basis of bogus documents and with the help of middlemen and officials posted at Army HQ Recruiting Office in Lucknow.

It has been alleged that 34 candidates participated in Army recruitment drive carried out by HQ recruiting office Lucknow, the sole recruiting station for Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

The recruitment drive was carried from August 3 to 16, 2016, for the residents of Auraiya, Barabanki, Kannauj, Gonda, Banda, Hamirpur and Fatehpur districts of UP while the site for the same was Kanpur Cantonment.

As per the terms and conditions, only candidates residing in these districts were eligible for applying.

34 persons, who didn’t belong to any of these districts, submitted their fake domicile certificates purportedly to have been issued by Deputy Collector Hamirpur, showing them to be residents of different villages/city area of Hamirpur district, said CBI .

With the help of touts, the accused persons got finally selected for posts of soldiers for technical, general duty, sentry duty, clerical duty and medical duty in the Indian army and most of them also joined training in Indian army at respective places.

The probe revealed that the domicile certificates shown to be issued from Tehsil office in Hamirpur were actually bogus.

CBI says that Girish – Hawaldar posted at recruitment office of Army in Lucknow was in touch on telephone with two persons – Praveen Kumar and Yogendra Kumar and they were negotiating about bribe money to be taken from candidates.

The agency has named 40 persons in its FIR including 34 candidates, Girish and private middlemen and others.

The accused have been booked for cheating, criminal conspiracy, forgery and prevention of corruption act.

