RPSC lodges FIR against 5 more dummy candidates, 1 arrested

Ajmer: The Rajasthan Public Service Commission (RPSC) has identified five cases of dummy candidates who sat in the senior teacher social science (secondary education department) exam held last year.
The RPSC called these five candidates for verification of documents but only one of them appeared. The RPSC has lodged an FIR against the five candidates at Civil Lines police station here and police have arrested one of them, RPSC secretary Ramniwas Mehta said on Wednesday.
Mehta said that 1,605 candidates were found eligible for selection in the exam, but during the verification process of these candidates it was found that five candidates had tampered with their photographs and a dummy candidate had sat in the exam on their behalf.
Mehta said that on January 23 the five candidates were called for verification but only one of them, Harish Chand Bheel, appeared and after confirming that he had asked a dummy candidate to sit in the exam, RPSC officials handed him to Civil lines police.
An RPSC official said that the five candidates have been booked by police under the stringent Rajasthan Public Examination (Measures to prevent unfair means in recruitment) Act 2022, for which punishment can be from 10 years in jail to life along with penalty from Rs 10 lakh to Rs 10 crore.