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Vigilance bureau yet to locate BPSC member

Investigating agency would request court for vigilance cases to issue arrest warrants against Sharma and Tabassum.
Vigilance bureau yet to locate BPSC member
PATNA: Although the state vigilance investigation bureau has seized several incriminating documents relating to the alleged irregularities in the selection of 184 candidates for the Bihar Administrative Service on the basis a limited competitive examination conducted by the Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) in 2003, it is yet to locate one of the members of the commission, Devnandan Sharma, and its former chairperson Rezia Tabassum.
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The vigilance bureau had on December 29 arrested nine persons, including BPSC chairman Ram Singhasan Singh and a senior member of the commission, Shivbalak Chaudhary, in connection with the alleged irregularities in the selection of candidates on the basis of the aforesaid examination.
All of them were sent to the Beur central jail here in judicial custody. Chaudhary is a former director of the animal husbandry department.
Additional director general of the vigilance bureau Neelmani said the investigating agency would request the court for vigilance cases to issue arrest warrants against both Sharma and Tabassum.
Vigilance bureau officials carried out raids in Patna on Friday but failed to nab them as both of them were found absent from their houses, Neelmani said. The officials of the investigating agency are still trying to locate them, he added.
Neelmani said the vigilance bureau officials on Friday recovered several documents relating to property transaction from the houses of five named accused in the case ��� BPSC deputy secretary Syed Masum Ali, assistant secretary Tej Narayan Singh, information officer Sanjiv Kumar and analyst programmers Vijay Kumar and Bhanu Pratap ��� in course of the Friday raids. All the five had been arrested on December 29.
Neelmani said the investigation carried out so far by the bureau had revealed huge tampering with the answersheets, marksheets and computer data in order to extend favour to a majority of the selected candidates.
Original marks awarded to the "favoured" candidates had been erased from the answersheets and replaced with higher marks, vigilance sources added. About 4,000 class three government employees had appeared at the limited examination.
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