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A similar racket has come to the fore after a gang of AIIMS student who took the exam in place of another came to the fore. Delhi Police Sub Inspector (SI) Praveen Sidhu used to substitute for others in police recruitment examinations. This thing has come to light in the long investigation of the Crime Branch.
Crime Branch has arrested SI Praveen Sidhu. He has been sent to judicial custody. The accused SI has been captured in CCTV cameras giving the exam in place of another. Senior crime branch officer has confirmed the arrest of SI. On the other hand, the young man who became a constable has been dismissed from the Delhi Police.
A senior officer of the crime branch said that in the year 2020, there was an examination for the recruitment of constables in Delhi Police. Questions were also raised on the recruitment of 490 constables in this examination. The crime branch was investigating after registering a case on the complaint of Additional Secretary of Staff Selection Commission (SSC) Parimal Karan. In this case, the police has filed a charge sheet in the court.
During this, SSC had received a complaint that a youth named Arjun had appeared for the examination at an examination center in Saharanpur, UP. Arjun passed this exam and got selected as a constable. The crime branch was probing the matter. In the investigation, it was found that SI Praveen had given the exam instead of Arjun. In lieu of this, he had taken lakhs of rupees from Arjun. After investigation, Crime Branch arrested Delhi Police Trainee SI Praveen Sidhu.
Recruitment was done in 2022
Praveen was admitted to Delhi Police in the year 2022. At that time he is taking training in the training center. Crime Branch has written a letter to the officials of the training center for legal action against him. A Crime Branch official said that the Delhi Police Commissioner has dismissed Constable Arjun from his job. Police is probing at what level Praveen was running this racket and how many people are involved in the gang.
cctv footage found
SI’s way of giving exam instead of another was such that it is not easily caught. If there was no complaint Arjun went to take the exam at the center in Saharanpur. There he did biometric etc. After this Arjun came out of the examination hall and Praveen went to take the examination. Now sending Praveen’s handwriting for matching.
