The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has made a big revelation in the ongoing investigation regarding the Dental Surgeon Recruitment Exam of Haryana. The Enforcement Directorate, citing a forensic report, has said that the Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) sheets of 15 candidates in the preliminary examination held on November 13, 2021 for Dental Surgeon recruitment were tampered.
In its FIR filed in the Panchkula court in the Haryana HPSC scam worth crores of rupees, the ED said that former Deputy Secretary Anil Nagar and his middleman Ashwini Sharma used to fill the blank circles. Candidates have original and carbon copy of OMR sheet.
Of the 24 HCS exam roll numbers written on paper found in Nagar’s pocket during the search, 15 matched with the data recovered from Ashwini Sharma’s mobile phone. The ED said that HPSC staff Deputy District Attorney (DDA) Gautam Nariyala, Assistant Jitendra Singh and Steno Satpal had revealed that Nagar continued scanning OMR sheets even after leaving the service commission office after 8 pm. The ED case is based on an FIR registered by the State Vigilance Bureau (now ACB) on November 17, 2021, against Nagar, Sharma and others. A total of Rs 3.30 crore was recovered in this case, out of which Rs 1.08 crore was recovered from Nagar’s room in the HPSC office. Besides, Rs 66 lakh were recovered from the residence of Nagar’s friend Ashish Kumar and his father Satish Garg, while another Rs 1.44 crore (of Nagar) was surrendered by Ashish. Along with this, Rs 12 lakh more were recovered from Nagar’s house. Sharma’s company M/s Paru Data Solutions Private Limited had got the contract from HPSC to scan OMR sheets. Upon his arrest on November 18, 2021, the Vigilance Bureau contacted Nagar and told him that “he had brought a scanning machine”. He came to Nagar’s office and left the trolley bag. The bag was full of cash. After this, the Vigilance Bureau raided Nagar’s office and arrested him.
Vineet Kumar, from whom Sharma had rented the scanning machine for HPSC work, told the ED that he had seen Sharma filling circles in the OMR sheets in the room assigned for scanning. HPSC employees told ED that they often came to the city for work related to scanning. Once there, on Nagar’s instructions, he took out the sheets and placed them on his table for scanning. However, during the scanning process, Sharma and Nagar would sit alone in the cabin and sometimes it would be locked from inside.
