Edu dept officials booked for regularisation of 'ineligible'

Jammu and Kashmir State Vigilance Organisation (SVO) today registered two separate cases against nine persons including six education department officials over regularisation of three 'ineligible' Rahbar-e-Taleem (ReT) teachers about a decade back.
"Verification into the alleged regularisation of three ReT teachers engaged on the basis of forged certificates in Education Zone Hardapanzoo in Budgam district, revealed that conspiracies were hatched between officials and the accused beneficiaries in 2005 and 2006," an SVO spokesperson said.
Two separate cases under various sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act and Ranbir Panel Code (RPC) were registered against these officials and teachers, he said.

They include, the then Chief Education Officers of Budgam Ahmadullah Owaisi, Peerzada Nissar Ahmad and Mohammad Rafi, then Zonal Education Officers Syed Abdul Rouf, Abdul Rehman Bhat, Abdul Qayoom and ReT teachers Altaf Hussein Bhat, Fayaz Ahmad Malik and Bashir Ahmad Bhat, the spokesperson said.
Preliminary investigation into the allegations revealed the accused officers pursued cases of the RET teachers, initially engaged in the year 2001, for regularisation, despite knowing that the certificates produced by them were fake, he said.
"Further investigation of both the cases were taken up," the spokesman said, adding no one has been arrested yet.
The ReT teachers were under the state government scanner following an order by the High Court to scrutinise the certificates and screen those teachers who obtained their degrees through distance mode.

The HC order came after an ReT applicant failed to write an essay on cow in the court room earlier this year after his appointment was challenged in the court.