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Kashmir's Examgate: Education minister indicted?
Wednesday February 08, 2012 07:43:13 PM,
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Kashmir education minister cheated for son's exam?
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Jammu: After seven days
of inquiry, Jammu and Kashmir Police have reportedly indicted
state Education Minister Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed for using
"unfair means" to favour his son in Class 10 examination in 2009.
A source in the crime branch of police told IANS that the inquiry
revealed that Peerzada, a Congress man, used his official position
to help his son Imam Sauban pass his Class 10 examination.
The minister in the National Conference-Congress coalition
government was not available for comment despite several attempts.
The source said that the crime branch has not yet officially
submitted the report to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.
The chief minister had asked the crime branch to inquire into the
matter and submit a report within seven days after the
allegations surfaced Jan 30 this year.
A local newspaper in Srinagar first published a report on the
issue along with photographs of Imam's answer sheets of the Urdu
and Mathematics papers for Class 10 examination. "Both papers were
written by a senior education department official," the source
said.
Reportedly, the state education department and the Board of School
Education (BOSE) "were hand in glove in the case".
Earlier in 2010, another state minister, Ghulam Mohammad Saroori
of the Congress party, had to quit for alleged impersonation in
the entrance examination for getting his daughter admitted to a
medical college.
Peerzada also resigned during his earlier stint as education
minister in January 2008 following charges by Independent
legislator Shoaib Lone that he paid a bribe of Rs.40,000 to him.
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