Govt orders CBI probe in Jammu impersonation


Ahmed Ali Fayyaz

SRINAGAR, Aug 23: Amid protests in Jammu against the involvement of two senior leaders of the Congress and National Conference, including a Cabinet Minister, in a matter of impersonation, in the entrance examination of a private medical college, Government today decided to assign the investigation to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

Informed sources told Early Times that immediately after returning from Ajmer Sharief, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah held a meeting with his ministerial colleagues and senior government functionaries over the matter of some impostors having been allegedly hired by certain parents, including two ruling coalition politicians, for appearing fraudulently in the entrance examination of ASCOMS on behalf of their sons and daughters. As already reported, authorities had on Saturday last caught some impostors red-handed and handed them over to Police.

The impostors, all hired from outside the state, had been found taking the examination for some seats in MBBS and BDS in ASCOMS. The candidates on whose behalf these impostors had appeared in the examination fraudulently, included the daughter of a Cabinet Minister belonging to Congress party and the son of a former MLC of the National Conference.

Sources said that after a telephonic conversation with some senior leaders at AICC, Chief Minister decided to assign the investigation to CBI. Orders to this effect were expected either late tonight or in the forenoon tomorrow.

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