Four Haryana youths were arrested on Tuesday for hiring others to write a test for a job at the Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding (IFGTB) here, police said. They were identified as R Amitkumar, S Amit Kumar, R Amit, and Suleman.
The Central government-run IFGTB conducted a test for five posts of multi-tasking staff on February 4 and videotaped the candidates who wrote the exam as well as collecting their thumb impressions to avoid chances of impersonation.
Those who passed the test were asked to appear for verification of their certificates on Monday.
At the time, the institute went through the video footage of the candidates that was shot during the examination.
The officials found that four people who came for the certificate verification had not attended the written test and four others had appeared on their rolls. Their thumb impressions did not match those of the persons who had taken the test as well, the police said.
On a complaint by the institute, Saibaba Colony police arrived at the scene and interrogated the four persons. The police said they confessed that they had hired others to appear for the test in their place.
