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Police arrest four more in Army recruitment scam

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Press Trust of India Nashik (Maha)
Police have arrested four more persons, including a retired Army jawan, in connection with a recruitment scam.

Retired jawan Resham Singh and serving Army personnels Havildar Prabas Kumar, Hariom Sharma and Pawan Kumar were arrested from various places in north India yesterday.

They would be brought here by tomorrow, In-charge of Upnagar police station, Ashok Bhagat said.

They were involved in preparation of fake recruitment documents, he said.

Police has earlier arrested Col (retd) Sukhpritsingh Randhawa (59), a resident of Noida, on September 1.

The racket came to light in July when recruitment letters of four jawans from Rajasthan who had joined the Artillery Centre here for training were found to be fake. Investigation revealed that some people were selling the youth bogus recruitment letters of the Army.
 

Before Randhawa, police had arrested Army jawan Giriraj Singh Chouhan, who was posted in Delhi, and an alleged middleman named Tekchand Meghawal.

A total of 10 persons have been arrested so far.

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First Published: Sep 19 2016 | 7:28 PM IST

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