Summary:
More arrests are in the offing, officials indicated.According to police, forged qualification documents were used for recruiting teachers. According to available records, 108 teachers out of 290, were recruited in Mathura district on the basis of forged documents. Agra: In a major operation, UP police’s Special Task Force (STF) on Tuesday arrested 16 government employees, including 13 teachers and three basic shiksha adhikari (BSA) employees, in Mathura, for their alleged involvement in a multi-crore recruitment scam of teachers that took place in 2014-15. The other two BSA employees who were arrested are from the computer department.Of the 13 arrested teachers, nine were recruited just six months ago on the basis of their forged documents. More than 29,000 teachers were recruited then..