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Special courts to handle fake caste certificate cases

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Government has decided to create 20 judicial posts, including two of Metropolitan Magistrate, for setting up Special CBI Courts to exclusively handle cases against persons charged with taking up jobs on the basis of fake Scheduled Tribe certificates. This decision was taken at a Delhi Cabinet meeting, chaired by Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit, on Monday.

The decision comes in the wake of several incidents in which people had taken up Government jobs on the basis of forged ST certificates. The decision assumes significance as the Delhi High Court had also directed Central Bureau of Investigation to probe and initiate action on a public interest litigation which had charged that thousands of people had used forged Scheduled Tribe certificates issued in Bihar to take up jobs in various Government departments and agencies in the Capital.

The High Court had also directed CBI to take steps to ensure that such irregularities were not repeated and those in the wrong were severely punished. The fraud, it was stated was being committed with the help of a mafia operating in Delhi which made use of duplicate rubber stamps and copied formats of various caste certificates to forge ST certificates.

The petition was filed by Chandeshwar Prasad, a government employee working in Delhi and hailing from Bihar, who demanded proper investigation into how lakhs of general category people had been given employment on the basis of forged ST documents. He had claimed that many of these people, who had been absorbed and were now also claiming promotion on the basis of reservation, had fraudulently joined service in Delhi Development Authority, Municipal Corporation of Delhi, New Delhi Municipal Council, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, and various schools and colleges in Delhi.

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