The UT police will question the Director Public Instructions (Schools) Samwartak Singh Khangwal for his prima-facie involvement in the teachers' recruitment scam.
"The investigations so far indicate towards involvement of Samwartak Singh in the entire scandal, for which he needs to be questioned at length. We will question him soon. He needs to explain the scores of phone calls and messages exchanged between him and the accused, particularly after the recruitment process picked up pace," a senior police official said. Singh is a Haryana-cadre IAS officer.
Highly placed sources in the Administration said Samwartak Singh could be repatriated to his parent cadre.
Also, according to sources, involvement of other senior officials of the Education department in the scam cannot be ruled out.
The police, meanwhile, got the custody of the two accused, Jolly and Hardev Singh, for two more days. Now, the accused will be produced in the court on September 10.
The accused had allegedly accepted bribe from the eligible candidates through cheques. They had assured the candidates that the cheques would be encashed only after their selection.
In the court, the prosecution pleaded that they needed to recover those cheques and asked for more time to interrogate the accused to know the names of other officials involved in the scam.
Source : Indian Express
