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GUJRANWALA, April 4: The education department will seek fresh applications from candidates for recruitment as educators after cancellation of the earlier process owing to the academic degree scandal. The degrees of 59 aspirants for the posts of educators were found fake during scrutiny.
Sources said the recruitment process was cancelled by higher-ups of the department when a scam of fake degrees came to surface during the scrutiny. The district administration caught 33 suspects and got registered FIRs against 26 others who disappeared.
The scrutiny committee checked the degrees of graduation and master’s and sent those to the universities concerned for verification. It was learnt that a district education officer was among those found involved in the scam.
DCO Manzar Hayat was the recruitment committee chairman and he supervised the process. He said the cases of suspected education officials would be sent to the Anti-Corruption Establishment if they were found guilty.
PROTEST: Residents of Kashmir Colony brought traffic to a standstill for some two hours on GT Road to protest the killing of a youth by a franchised bus near Chand Da Qila bypass intersection here on Tuesday.
Reports said that deceased Ayaz was crossing the road when the speeding bus crushed him to death.
The angry mob blocked the road and smashed windowpanes of two buses in protest.
After receiving information, the police reached there and resorted to baton-charge to disperse the angry crowd.
The police also arrested around a dozen protesters while cases would be registered against them under the terrorism act.
ACQUITTED: The Anti-Terrorism Court No 2 acquitted four accused, including three women, involved in supplying arms to arrested dacoits to manage their escape from Sabzi Mandi police station when the prosecution could not prove charges against them.
Those acquitted are: Naeemullah, Fazeelat Bibi, Sheda Bibi and Fiaz Bibi.
