UP govt challenges June 3 order

LUCKNOW/PRAYAGRAJ: The state government on Saturday challenged the single judge bench order of June 3 staying appointment process of 69000 assistant teachers in Uttar Pradesh. A double judge bench of the high court will hear the state government’s appeal on Monday.

While staying the appointment process, justice Alok Mathur of Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court had fixed July 12 as next date of hearing. The court’s order stopped the counselling process that was scheduled to start from June 3.

3 CANDIDATES HELD

Soraon police in Prayagraj on Saturday arrested three candidates who managed to qualify the assistant teachers’ recruitment exam by using unfair means in connivance with a recently busted gang. The Soraon police had on June 4 night arrested eight people of a gang of fraudsters who had charged hefty amounts from aspirants for helping them crack the exam and recovered cash and documents from their possession.

The fresh arrests include a candidate who had secured 142 marks out of 150 in the recruitment exam. Raids were also being carried out in various districts, including Jaunpur, Auraiya and Bhadohi for others involved in the racket, police said.

Additional superintendent of police KV Ashok said Pratapgarh’s Rahul Singh had registered an FIR against former zila panchayat member Krishna Lal Patel and seven others in Soraon police station on charges of defrauding Rs 7,50,000 from him to make him qualify in 69,000 asst teachers recruitment exam. Based on the FIR, police arrested eight people and found a lot of details in a diary recovered from them.

In the diary police found names and numbers of 20 candidates. After investigation, police teams on Saturday arrested Vinod Kumar of Jaunpur, Dharmendra Kumar of Phulpur, Prayagraj, and Amarnath of Holagarh, Prayagraj, who had allegedly cleared the recruitment exam using irregular means by agreeing to pay Rs 8 lakh to Rs 12 lakh to the members of the busted gang and had paid a portion of this amount as advance, police added.

So far, police have recovered Rs 24 lakh in cash and many luxury vehicles from the arrested people.

SO FAR, POLICE HAVE RECOVERED RS 24 LAKH IN CASH AND MANY LUXURY VEHICLES FROM THE ARRESTED PEOPLE.