GUJRANWALA, March 30: The recruitment of educators has been suspended till the scrutiny of academic certificates by the education department after a scam of fake degrees.

While officials involved in the scam were suspended from service by the executive district officer (education) on the orders of DCO Manzer Hayat here on Thursday.

District officer (monitoring) Ehsanullah Bhuttha said that certificates of eight candidates — Amanullah, Musarrat Afzal, Muhammad Imran Anwer, Umer Farooq, Nadim Arif, Shafqat Ali, Muhammad Sohail and Zulfiqar Ali were found fake while FIRs were also got registered against them.

He pointed out that checking of certificates of 25 more candidates were going on while cases would be got instituted against them in case their degrees were also found fake.

Cases against those education officers were sent to the Anti-Corruption Establishment who did not suspend teachers, Saleem Akhter and Rifat Bashir, despite the fact that they were serving on fake academic degrees.

Concern: A meeting of the Justice Criminal and Coordination Committee has expressed concern over rising incidents of dacoity, robbery and theft.

The meeting was held here on Thursday presided over by district and sessions judge Chaudhry Mazher Hussain Minhas.

The meeting urged the district police to adopt solid strategy to arrest the crime and provide security to the people.

It also stressed the need to provide medical facilities to patients of the Civil Hospital and jails. It said that a separate room should be constructed at the Civil Hospital for the treatment of prisoners.

The district and sessions judge asked the DPO to provide a complete list of unclaimed vehicles impounded at police stations.

DPO Dr Arif Mushtaq, jail superintendent Mian Shaukat Ali, SP (investigation) Muhammad Maqbool, the DHQ Hospital medical superintendent and senior government officers were also present on the occasion.

ASI SUSPENDED: An ASI and a naib-muharrer of the Kamoki Sadar police were suspended from service for corruption by DPO Dr Arif Mushtaq here on Thursday.