STATE TIMES NEWS
LEH: Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development-Subordinate Service Recruitment Board, Leh (LAHD-SSRB) had conducted interviews for various posts vis-à-vis Class-IV in March at Leh and in April at Jammu and for the post of drivers in April at Leh among others. During these interviews the committee was shocked to stumble upon a huge number of fake certificates produced by some of the candidates that were affiliated to various boards/ institutions of different parts of the country.
District Magistrate, Saugat Biswas who is the Chairman of the LAHD-SSRB, during the course of the interviews inspected almost each and every certificate which appeared to be fake through the internet based verification systems of various boards. On questioning various candidates even agreed to have paid agents for obtaining such certificates.
“Prima-facie it appears that many students who drop out of regular studies approach such well established nexus of touts and agents outside the State and obtain fake certificates of State Boards on hefty payments. We have sent the cases detected during the course of these interviews to the district police for further investigation. We shall if needed approach the police department of other states to catch hold of such agents with a view to curbing this heinous practice” said Biswas.
District Magistrate, Leh has alerted the general public to refrain from such practices which would land them in serious trouble of imprisonment under the law. He also expressed the apprehension that such practice must be on with students of other districts of J&K.