Handwriting test for Assam MP's daughter in jobs scam

Guwahati | Monday | 16th July, 2018

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"Prior to this, cops had conducted similar tests which had resulted in the arrest of a number of officials. Dibrugarh Police have been serving summons to several officials to appear for similar tests, over suspicion that they had paid huge sums to key accused Rakesh Paul, the former APSC chairman, to forge their selection tests with fake answer scripts. GUWAHATI: Sleuths probing the cash-for-job scam in the Assam Public Service Commission ( APSC ) have summoned 19 more government officials, including police service recruit Pallavi Sharma - daughter of BJP MP (Tezpur) R P Sharma - to appear for handwriting tests after forensic examination of their answer sheets reportedly indicated several anomalies.Besides Sharma, those served with summons include two state police officers, 13 civil service officials and three allied service officials.Additional SP (Dibrugarh) Surjeet Singh Panesar said, "All the candidates are from the 2016 batch and have been asked to appear for the handwriting test at police special bureau headquarters in Guwahati on July 18 ..