J&K minister in the dock over son’s exam
Peerzada Muhammad Sayeed, former Jammu and Kashmir PCC chief and minister for school education in Omar Abdullah-led National Conference-Congress coalition government, who has been at the centre of many controversies for his alleged involvement in cases of corruption and other wrongdoings in the past, is again in the dock.
Chief minister Abdullah has summoned him to explain his position before him after a Srinagar newspaper on Monday published a story about use of unfair means to benefit Mr Sayeed’s son in the senior secondary examination and involvement of the officials of the Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education (BOSE) in an alleged cover-up operation.
This comes a day after Congress party in Jammu and Kashmir faced a humiliating situation with senior party leader and former minister Abdul Gani Vakil publicly seeking to implicate minister for public health engineering Taj Mohiuddin, also from Congress, in cases of bribery and fraud and the latter threatening to sue him in court of law.
A government spokesperson in Jammu said on Monday evening that the chief minister has taken cognisance of the news item and asked Mr Sayeed “to see him to explain the facts in this matter.” The file submitted to the chief minister by the school education minister earlier has been sent to the crime branch of the Jammu and Kashmir police and asked to complete inquiry into the matter within seven working days,” the spokesperson said, adding, “Any further action will be determined by the findings of the crime branch.”
The report published in Greater Kashmir and its sister publication Kashmir Uzma (Urdu) had said that the school education minister allegedly in connivance with then secretary BOSE (now chairman) managed to get his son qualify the senior secondary examination through “unfair means” in 2009.
The evidence in the case includes documents about the use of dubious means and how answer scripts of Urdu and mathematics were written in two hands so as to enable him (minister’s son) pass the examination.
The report also said that in spite of internal probe in BOSE and constant reminders from the governor and the chief minister’s secretariats about the allegations, there has been no forward movement in the case since the allegations involved those who are holding top positions in the BOSE.
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