Employment

Fresh arrests made by the Dhanbad police today exposed that a well organized racket was 'selling' the posts of Bengal Constable to uncountable job aspirant youths at multiple locations of Bengal and Jharkhand at high price ranges. 

 

In Bengal 10 arrests were made in connection with job selling by the East Burdwan police yesterday, which was superceded by the Jharkhand police with arrests of 17 brokers and job aspirants from Jharia and Dhanudih. The brokers had hired lodges there where job aspirants from Nadia, Murshidabad and Asansol. The Dhanbad police seized two registers, 272 admit cards of West Bengal Constable Recruitment Exam-2025. Also, 67 mobile phones, 12 smart watches, several PAN cards, bank cheque books were recovered from the arrested persons and two lodges. While examining the registers, the Jharkhand police came to know that 273 youths were sold exam questions against negotiable prices between Rs 2 to Rs 5 Lakhs. 

 

The Dhanbad City Police Superintendent Ritvik Srivastava said: "Bengal Police was contacted immediately and they were scheduled to arrive here for interrogation of the arrested youths." 

 

The exam for the recruitment of Constables against 11,749 declared vacancies was scheduled on Sunday. Before the exams started, the police received a tip off from the PRB, West Bengal that three kingpins involved in pilfering question papers were arriving Burdwan from Naihati, North 24 Parganas. The tip off hinted that the persons were selling question papers of the scheduled Police Constable Exam 2025. The Crime Branch already had gathered the photographs and some personal details of the three persons.

 

The officials of Burdwan Police Station, accompanied by the Crime Branch members and the GRP staffs intercepted the said three persons the moment they got down from UP Poorvanchal Express at 4:55 am yesterday. 

 

The accused arrested by East Burdwan police were identified as - Sanju Sarkar, Kaushik Chatterjee and Surajit Adhikari. They hailed from Chakdaha, Nadia. Six cellphones were seized from their possession. The officials gathered some valuable inputs and came to know that they were destined to reach Mankar Railway Station first where some 'gang members' were assigned to accompany them to Kalamdanga village on three motorcycles.

 

The police team had cracked down at the Kalamdanga tent and booked seven persons where, the local villagers claimed that at least 200 had assembled in phases since yesterday late afternoon. Some arrested job incumbents - Dibyendu Mahato, Karunamoy Mahato, Radhakanta Karmakar and Abhishek Mahato were from Joypur, Tamna and Burrabazar PS areas of Purulia, and two others - Kaushik Ghosh, Rakesh Ghosh hailed from Shantipur and Krishnagar in Nadia and another identified as Sujit Pramanik was from Bamongola in Malda. The officials were surprised while examining their WhatsApp chats and several contents linked to the Constable recruitment exam. The SP, East Burdwan, Sayak Das said: "Further investigations are in progress to unearth the deep routed conspiracy." 

 

The accused have been granted police remand for five days. They were slapped charges of criminal conspiracy, cheating, assembly for committing crime and organised crime under Sections - 61 (2), 318 (4), 111(2 & 6) and 112 (2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.