Police yet to get documents from CBI
SHILLONG: The criminal investigation related to the Education scam is in limbo as the police are yet to get the related documents pertaining to the recruitment of assistant teachers for lower primary schools which were seized by the CBI.
It was on June 19 this year after a hearing that the Chief Judicial Magistrate B. Joshi had directed CBI to hand over the relevant papers to the state police after making an inventory and acknowledgment receipt of the same.
However, police are yet to get the relevant papers related to the scam from CBI to probe the FIRs lodged against the perpetrators of the scam.
According to sources, since the documents are still at the CBI office in Guwahati, police could not get access to them.
Earlier during the hearing, the CBI counsel did not object to the request of the police to hand over the documents to the police.
There are two pending FIRs lodged with the police to initiate action against those involved in the scam.
One of the job aspirants, Sharaidalyne Wahlang, whose score sheet was tampered, filed an FIR in July 2011 at Laitumkhrah police station against the Director of Elementary and Mass Education alleging manipulation of her marks during the announcement of the results of interview for the posts of assistant lower primary teachers.
Wahlang had pointed out that her marks under ‘experience’ had been erased from the compilation sheet.
Wahlang had submitted a certificate of five years of experience while applying for the post in 2009, result of which was declared in December the same year. The criteria for selection for the post were on the basis of written test or personal test besides teaching experience.
Besides the complaint of Wahlang, earlier on February 12, 2010 an FIR was lodged by Agnes Kharshiing before the SP, East Khasi Hills, seeking investigation on the scam.
Later, with the delay in the probe, Kharshiing along with Angela Rangad jointly filed an FIR at Laitumkhrah police station in November 2012 to probe the matter.
Unhappy over further delay in the probe, Kharshiing wrote to the Chief Judicial Magistrate regarding the matter and subsequently, the Court ordered the police to register a case. In April, 2013, police questioned J.D. Sangma, the then Director of Mass and Elementary Education but there was no progress to the probe.
A year after in June this year, the police again began investigation with a request before the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate to get the seized documents on the education scam from CBI.