Army aspirant caught submitting fake certificates

ALLAHABAD: Vigilant eyes of the army personnel monitoring the army recruitment drive on Monday caught an aspirant who had successfully passed all
tests and his documents were summoned for final screening. What is shocking is that apart from fake certificates presented by the candidate originally a native of Assam, the involvement of personnel in the district collectorate has come to light who have allotted a registration number against the fake domicile certificate.

Colonel Ashwini Verma, who is supervising the rally, said that the candidate hailing from a poor economic background doubled up as a waiter-cum-cook at a roadside restaurant in Bahraich to earn a paltry sum.

There he came in contact with a tout identified as Umesh who charged Rs 8,000 from him and provided fake high school certificates, marksheets, character certificate as well as a domicile certificate. The registration number in the certificate had been provided by personnel in the district collectorate.

Cautioning the aspirants against resorting to fraudulent practices for appearing in the recruitment drive, Col Verma asserted that such persons would be weeded out and nobody can make it into the Indian Army on the basis of fraud.
He stressed upon the need of identifying the black sheep in the district collectorate who were possibly entertaining fake documents from touts in exchange of money.

On Monday, recruitment rally for soldiers (general duty) from Pratapgarh district, Gorkhas and Sikhs of UP and Uttarakhand was held while Tuesday would be the last day of the run.