‘10 dental surgeons, 50 others paid bribe for Haryana jobs’

‘10 dental surgeons, 50 others paid bribe for Haryana jobs’

Price For Cheat Code Was ₹10L: VB

Manvir.Saini@timesgroup.com

Chandigarh:  22.11.2021

Navin Kumar, first accused to be arrested in Haryana’s cash-for-job scam, confessed to have helped 10 candidates get through the dental surgeon’s recruitment examination for Rs 10 lakh each. Together with two others, he is also said to have done more than 50 paid selections through the Haryana Staff Selection Commission (HSSC).

This is his reported confession to the vigilance bureau that had claimed to have seized Rs 20 lakh bribe money from him before reaching Haryana Public Service Commission (HPSC) deputy secretary Anil Nagar. On Sunday, Panchkula’s duty magistrate remained Navin Kumar in judicial custody, where he told the interrogators that he along with Ashwani Kumar and another person had got 40 nurses, four VLDAs (veterinary and livestock development assistants), and 15 ANMs (auxiliary nurses and midwives) through the written examination.

Each of these candidates had paid them Rs 10 lakh. The state vigilance bureau has shared the information with the HSSC and the HPSC, asking both agencies to verify the details. The HSSC is in the process of finalising the appointments. Navin Kumar was trapped behind a restaurant in Panchkula’s Sector 5, where he had come to collect Rs 20 lakh of the bribe money from a candidate, in Rs 500 notes.

His lead and other evidence obtained during the investigation took the bureau to Ashwani Sharma’s house in Jhajjar district, from where it claimed to have seized Rs 1.07 crore cash, the alleged share of Haryana Civil Services (HCS) officer Anil Nagar. The officers made Sharma contact Nagar, who reportedly told him to bring the money to his HPSC office.

The bureau claims that it caught Nagar accepting more than Rs 1 crore from Ashwani Sharma in his office. The raid on his house and associates yielded Rs 2.10 crore cash. They associates had kept most of it as his share.

Navin Kumar was trapped behind a restaurant in Panchkula’s Sector 5, where he had come to collect Rs 20 lakh of the bribe money from a candidate