Jaipur, December 4 (Udaipur Kiran): The Special Operations Group (SOG) has arrested Laduram Bishnoi, the main accused carrying a reward of ₹10,000, in the sensitive Gram Sevak Recruitment Examination–2016 dummy candidate case. He had allegedly secured a government job by getting a proxy candidate to appear in the examination on his behalf.
Additional Director General of Police, SOG, Vishal Bansal said the case came to light on the basis of a complaint received by the SOG. The complaint alleged that during the Gram Sevak recruitment exam of 2016, Laduram Bishnoi did not appear himself and instead used a dummy candidate to fraudulently obtain the job. After verification of the facts, a case was registered and investigation was initiated.
During the probe, it was found that Gopal Bishnoi was hired by Laduram to appear in the examination as a dummy candidate. Gopal Bishnoi, son of Jagdish Bishnoi and a resident of Barmer, was at that time working as a second-grade teacher in Jodhpur. He was already arrested in this case on December 19, 2024.
After the registration of the case, Laduram Bishnoi went absconding and kept changing his locations. A reward of ₹10,000 was declared for his arrest. Using technical analysis, intelligence inputs and continuous surveillance, the SOG team finally arrested him on December 1.
The arrested accused, Laduram Bishnoi, son of Sonaram, is a resident of Gadra Nedinaadi, tehsil Dhorimanna, district Barmer. The SOG has now expanded the scope of the investigation to trace the entire network behind this recruitment fraud. ADG Vishal Bansal said the focus is to identify all those involved, find out whether other candidates adopted the same method, and determine if an organised gang was behind the scam. The SOG reiterated that all forms of fraud in merit-based recruitment will be eliminated strictly.
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