Two months after it sent questionnaires to police officers assigned responsibilities for conducting the now scrapped constable recruitment examination, sleuths grilled two senior officers for two days regarding the paper leak.
The police had sent separate questionnaires to inspector general of police JP Singh, who is chairperson of the Police Recruitment Board and other members of the question paper setting committee and question paper printing committee. Both committees have four members each.
“As the officers’ responses to the questionnaire were unsatisfactory, two senior officers were questioned for two days,” said Madhusudhan Sharma, head of the Special Investigation Team probing the matter.
The state’s home department had notified the revised Himachal Pradesh Police Department Recruitment (Recruitment of Constable Rules) in 2021, providing for the constitution of the Himachal Pradesh Police Recruitment Board and starting the online process for inviting applications. The board comprised an additional director general of police (armed police and training), all inspectors’ generals (IGs range, welfare and administration) and deputy inspectors general (DIGs, range). The board was entrusted with the responsibility of supervising the recruitment process. At the district level, the recruitment committee was headed by the range IG or DIG. It comprised one commandant of the state police battalion nominated by the DIG or superintendents of police (SPs) of concerned…
