Finance accounts assistant recruitment scam: CBI raids 14 locations in Jammu, Samba districts

BSF (Jammu Frontier) inspector general DK Boora said that the investigation against the former medical officer was on and that the BSF had nothing to do with his involvement in the case

The CBI on Wednesday conducted simultaneous searches at 14 locations in Jammu and Kashmir in connection with alleged irregularities in the accounts assistant (finance department ) recruitment examination conducted by the J&K Services Selection Board (JKSSB), officials said.

The CBI conducted simultaneous searches at 14 locations in Jammu and Kashmir in connection with alleged irregularities in the accounts assistant (finance department ) recruitment examination conducted by the J&K Services Selection Board (JKSSB), (Representative Image/HT File)

An official, who did not wish to be named, said, “The CBI booked 20 people in the case, including former JKSSB member Neelam Khajuria, section officer Anju Raina and former BSF frontier headquarters medical officer Karnail Singh, who is also an accused in the J&K Police sub-inspector recruitment examination scam case.

On Wednesday, BSF (Jammu Frontier) inspector general DK Boora said that the investigation against the former BSF officer was on and that the BSF had nothing to do with his involvement in the case. “Whatever he did, it was done by him in his personal capacity, and it would be wrong to drag entire organisation into it,” he said.

The examination was conducted by the board on March 6 and its results were published on April 21.

It was also alleged that JKSSB violated rules in assigning the task of setting question paper to the Bengaluru-based private company, they said.