CBI NAMES OFFICERS FOR RECRUITMENT IRREGULARITIES

The CBI investigation into the CRPF recruitment scam has revealed that some officers involved in the recruitment of constables had collected more than Rs 225 crore from the aspirants. The team said that amounts ranging between Rs 2 lakh and Rs 3 lakh were collected from each candidate by touts and some part of the money allegedly went to some senior CRPF officers. The CBI had also collected proof of money transaction between touts and the officers in question. The agency began the probe into the recruitment scam in May 2009 and had arrested five accused including I.G. Pushkar Singh, DIG P.S. Baxla besides three touts from Muzaffarpur and Commandant of the 134 battalion B.S. Sidhu from Daltonganj in Jharkhand. The investigations also established an inter-state link of touts with some senior officials of the central force posted in Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab and Delhi.