In a major action against corruption and corrupt officials Punjab vigilance bureau on Tuesday arrested five officials of Punjab Education Department for committing irregularities and misappropriation in safekeeping of official records.
The records were the qualification documents of teachers given as proof in the recruitment of about 9,998 posts of ETT/JBT/Teaching Fellows in 2007. Question were raised joining of certain teachers who did not have the proper qualification and an investigation was started. They came under the vigilance scanner when they failed to provide the relevant documents.
The accused, Manjit Singh, junior assistant, Mohinder Singh, senior assistant, Dharampal, senior assistant (all retired now), from the District Education Office (DEO) Elementary, Ludhiana, Narinder Kumar, junior assistant and Mitar Vasu, senior assistant in DEO (Elementary), Gurdaspur were arrested and produced before the court on Tuesday.