Nagaland DGP Rupin Sharma confirms six proxy candidates detected during constable recruitment written exam in Mon district; FIR registered.
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DIMAPUR — Even as oral interview for recruitment of constables into the Nagaland Police is currently underway across various districts, reports have emerged that about six proxy candidates were detected during written examination from Mon district.
This was disclosed by Nagaland Director General of Police (DGP), Rupin Sharma, to a section of media persons on Friday. He informed that the police have registered a first information report (FIR) and investigation is underway.
Sharma stated that action will be taken against those candidates and will be debarred from such examinations in future; saying anyone who advocates unfair practices should not join the police force and any government organisations.
He also added that action will be taken against those imposters who have appeared for the examination.
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To a query if they have received any complaint from the candidates pertaining to written exams, he responded in affirmative saying that some have approached him personally as well as to the district recruitment board (DRB). To ensure that anyone who qualified by written marks does not get excluded, he said they have rechecked and re-verified the papers.
“If anyone has a problem, they could file an RTI or check their own papers. Some of the people have checked and they found it satisfactory,” Sharma said.
It may be mentioned that the DGP had issued a notification on February 26 directing all the presiding officers and member secretary not to disclose any information regarding the results and marks scored by the candidates.
It stated that only the results declared by DRB in the newspapers would be considered authentic because PHQ has conducted rechecking/re-totalling of marks.
He also warned that failure to comply or leaking of information would result in strict disciplinary action.
Sharma also informed that some of the district level committees had not followed the instructions properly that were put on the question papers. Citing one of the instructions where candidate cannot mark double answers, he stated that some people had marked double answers. He reasoned that double marking will result in right answer.
He was of the view that some will get more marks wherever there is inconsistency, whether it is at the district level screening committee or invigilator. To ensure fairness, he added that they have to re-total the papers and see whether the totalling of the marks and marks allocated were as per the instructions given in the question papers.
On the reason why the district SPs and others were told not to disclose marks was because they will have checked the mistakes made by them.