CTU recruitment scam: CBI court sends four to jail

CHANDIGARH: Four persons were given two years in jail by a CBI court in Chandigarh Transport Undertaking (CTU) conductor recruitment scam here on Friday. The court found them guilty of impersonation and cheating.
The accused were convicted under sections 420(Cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 466(Forgery of record of Court or of public register, etc), 467(Forgery of valuable security, will, etc), 419(Punishment for cheating by personation) and 471(Using as genuine a forged (document or electronic record]) of IPC. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 on each one of them. The convicts were identified as Vikram and Sonu from Jind and Rajeev Roy and Rinku from Bihar. Three persons namely Jitender, Deepak Kumar and Kamal were acquitted by the court.
The matter dates back to October 3, 2010 when the CBI booked the accused in this case. Most of the arrested candidates had paid the agents Rs 60,000 to Rs 3 lakh.
The team probing the recruitment racket of conductors for CTU, had arrested 13 persons, including 11 candidates who appeared in the test, on charges of impersonation, cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy. CBI team found that during the examination, Vikram and Sonu were found roaming outside Government Model Senior Secondary School, sector 23 and in his place Rajeev Roy and Rinku from Bihar gave the examination.