Former teacher held
Dharamsala, September 9
The district police today arrested Ashwani Dogra, a former government teacher, who was running a private academy from Gaggal, and Ranjana from Nandrule panchayat near Kangra in the examination scam unearthed in the Himachal Pradesh Board of School Education (HPBSE).
While Ashwani was being suspected to be the kingpin in the scam, Ranjana was a student who got matriculation certificate through the nexus.
Investigations by the police and board officials indicated that the scam might be spread to other board examinations of classes VIII, XI and XII also. This might increase the number of accused in the scam.
Kangra SP Atul Fulzele said the accused teacher was being quizzed and nothing could be said regarding his role in the scam as yet.
According to sources, the police was trying to locate 63 students who had secured class X certificates without appearing in examination centres. Initially, the police authorities tried to locate the students at the addresses given on their examination forms. However, all addresses turned out to be fake.
“We will now try to locate the accused students from their photographs collected from the forms. However, it may take some time,” a police official said.
Meanwhile, board secretary Prabhat Sharma said it seemed that a nexus between certain board employees and teachers existed in the racket. It seemed that that the nexus existed for a long time.
We are providing every possible detail to the police, he added.
The police sources are concentrating on the fact that how the answer sheets got into the hands of accused in the case. Generally, the answer sheets are in the custody of staff at examination centres or the board staff. The answer sheets have serial numbers and according to them it were distributed in the examination centres. Only a person involved in the entire process could have sneaked answer sheets outside the examination centres.
Then, the completed answer sheets were once again introduced in official bundles or sent directly to evaluation centres across the state. It can be at the staff level of examination centres or even at the postal department end, the police officials said.
Such a well-organised racket in which the students were securing certificates without even sitting in examination centers has shocked the entire teaching fraternity.
Kids locked up in classroom to capture a leopard in the
Shimla, September 9
It was a miraculous escape for 50 children of Government Primary School at Jhanjeri village in the Shoghi area when an injured leopard entered the kitchen where mid-day meal was being prepared.
Incidentally, another leopard that had been on the prowl in and around Puabo village near Bharari on the outskirts of the town was caught in the trap laid by the Wildlife Department.
Both the leopards have been shifted to the Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre at Tutikandi.
It was a call around 10 am from the police and the school authorities from Shoghi that made the wildlife team rush to the school where the leopard had sought protection under a shelf in the kitchen. “The leopard is very old and has major injuries in his hind limbs as well as deep wounds in the neck portion,” RK Raj, DFO (Wildlife), said.
The leopard, who was also suffering from acute skin ailment, was first spotted by a woman staff who was preparing the mid-day meal for children. Seeing the leopard, she jumped out of the window to save her life.
“The school staff immediately locked up all children in a room and informed the police who summoned the wildlife staff,” Raj said. Had the leopard not been injured there could have been a major disaster as classes were going on in the school.
The wildlife staff had a tough time tranquilising the leopard as it was so feeble that it had no muscle and was literally a skeleton.
Veterinary doctors have already started treating the leopard, but he is stated to be too frail and weak.
ब्लू सीडी बनाने वाले गिरोह का भंडाफोड़
कुल्लू. मनाली में ब्लू सीडी बनाने वाले एक गिरोह का भंडाफोड़ हुआ है।
मनु मार्किट में इस मामले में लक्ष्मी कम्यूनिकेशन सेंटर को पुलिस ने सील कर दिया है। एसएचओ मस्ताना सिंह ठाकुर ने बताया कि साइबर क्राइम के तहत कॉपी राइट एक्ट अधिनियम की धारा 292 लगाकर किशोर कुमार को गिरफ्तार किया है जबकि एक फरार है।
लक्ष्मी कम्यूनिकेशन सेंटर में ब्लू सीडी डाउनलोडिंग का धंधा लंबे अरसे से चल रहा था। कॉपी राइट कर स्कूली बच्चों को सेक्स परोसा जा रहा था। टी-सीरीज कंपनी की शिकायत पर यहां पर पुलिस ने रेड मारी और ब्लू सीडी और अन्य अश्लील जखीरा बरामद किया। सेंटर से सीडी, पेनड्राइव, मेमोरी कार्ड भी बरामद हुए हैं।
वीरभद्र के बयान पर भड़का महासंघ
हिमाचल प्रदेश अराजपत्रित कर्मचारी महासंघ ने पूर्व मुख्यमंत्री और केन्द्रीय इस्पात मंत्री वीरभद्र सिंह के ट्रिब्यूनल संबधी बयान को कर्मचारी विरोधी बताया है। महासंघ ने राजनीतिज्ञों को चेतावनी दी है कि कर्मचारी मामलों में अपनी टांग न अड़ाएं और राजनीति रोटियां न सेंके।
महासंघ के प्रदेश महामंत्री पुरूषोत्तम गुलेरिया ने यहां से जारी एक बयान में कहा कि कुछ लोग राजनैतिक लाभ प्राप्त करने के लिए ट्रिब्यूनल भंग करने के प्रदेश सरकार के निर्णय का दुष्प्रचार कर रहे हैं जबकि इस निर्णय से प्रदेश के लाखों कर्मचारियों को लाभ हुआ है।
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