Army Scam: An enormous ring together with six Lt. Colonels has been uncovered for facilitating backdoor entry to Indian Army

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has unearthed a significant Army recruitment rip-off and has booked six Lt Col-ranked officers for allegedly demanding bribes and facilitating bribery, in response to ThePrint report.The central company as booked 23 Army personnel and civilians, together with family members of officers over their position within the Army recruitment rip-off. According to the investigative company, MCSNA Bhagwan of the Army Air Defence Corps, is the alleged mastermind of the recruitment racket.The CBI sprung into motion after it obtained a criticism from Brigadier (Vigilance) V Okay Purohit. According to the criticism, a bit of the serving personnel have been allegedly concerned in accepting bribe for clearance of evaluation medical examination of briefly rejected officer candidates on the Base Hospital in New Delhi.The criticism additional said that Lt Col Bhagwan and Naib Subedar Kuldeep Singh have been additionally concerned in looking for gratification from potential officer candidates at SSB centres, stories ThePrint.It is being reported that the criticism states that Naib Subedar Kuldeep Singh sought assist from Lt Col Bhagwan for SSB exams “in lieu for money” and “touted aspiring candidates” to him. Lt Col Bhagwan is at present on a examine go away.Lt Col MVSNA Bhagwan of the Army Air Defence Corps; Lt Col Surender Singh of Service Selection Centre, Kapurthala; Lt Col Y S Chauhan of 6 Mountain Division Ordnance Unit, Bareilly; Lt Col Sukhdev Arora, Joint Director, DG Recruiting, New Delhi; Lt Col Vinay, Group Testing Officer (GTO), Selection Centre South, Bengaluru; and Major Bhavesh Kumar, GTO, Selection Centre North, Kapurthala, are all charged with corruption by the CBI after the latter carried out search operations at 30 areas throughout India on Monday.A CBI spokesperson stated, “Searches were conducted today at 30 places including Base Hospital, Cantonment, other Army establishments, civilian areas covering 13 cities, viz. Kapurthala, Bathinda, Delhi, Kaithal, Palwal, Lucknow, Bareilly, Gorakhpur, Visakhapatnam, Jaipur, Guwahati, Jorhat and Chirangon, which led to recovery of several incriminating documents. The documents so recovered during searches are being scrutinized.”The Army in a press release stated, “Indian Army has zero tolerance towards corrupt practices in the recruitment process for selection of suitable candidates for Indian Army. Based on a proactive operation by Army intelligence agencies, a case of possible malpractice in selection procedures at a Services Selection Centre has come to light. Since the scope of investigation involves multiple agencies including civil entities, Indian Army has decided to hand over the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation.”