Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, December 11

Nine youths were arrested by the Jalandhar Commissionerate on Saturday for trying to crack the written examination for entry to the Punjab Police at constable-level by sending their friends for writing the paper.

The recruitment for 4,383 posts is underway at the Punjab Armed Police headquarters here. A release by chairperson of the Punjab Police Recruitment Board ADGP Gurpreet Deo mentioned that these youths had been caught on the basis of mismatch in photos and biometric details taken at the time of examination and later during the physical trials that are currently underway.

“We have a built-in technology to detect the mismatch in which these youths were caught,” an official said.

The arrested youths confessed to the crime and have been arrested by the New Baradari police. They said they were not so good in studies and not very well-prepared, owing to which they tried playing smart. The officials said they also minutely checking all documents of the candidates and the photographs that they had submitted during the filling of the forms. These photographs, too, were being matched digitally at the time of their appearance for written and physical tests, the officials said, warning candidates of trying to commit any forgery henceforth.

As many as 4 lakh candidates had taken the examination, of which 25,500 candidates were called for the physical trials at PAP. This stage-2 recruitment process is underway since December 3 and will go on till December 17. As many as 9,800 candidates have already appeared for the trials in the last eight days. The officials said in case any candidate had missed his/her trial on the given date due to some reason, he or she could appear on December 17 at PAP.