Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Oct 20: The State High Court has sought latest status report regarding investigations being carried out by the Crime Branch of Jammu and Kashmir Police in multi-crore Elementary Teachers Training (ETT) scam.
The investigation is being conducted in the scam by Crime Branch Kashmir as well as by Crime Branch Jammu in connection with two FIRs registered at CB Jammu and one at CB Kashmir.
It may be mentioned here that court has sought periodical reports with regard to multi crore scam and huge bungling in Elementary Teachers Training (ETT) colleges. The court at the request of State Counsel B A Dar (AAG) granted four weeks time for filing the status report.
Court is dealing with a PIL filed by Parents Coordination Committee way back in 2003 and till date various revelations have come to fore before the court about the bungling and irregularities in ETT Colleges throughout the State.
In one of the reports, it is alleged that the candidates were lured and amounts, ranging from Rs 45,000 to Rs 80,000 were extracted from each one of them through touts for providing them degrees and certificates by these ETT colleges.
Enquiry report revealed that these institutions were allowed and permitted to run the courses without issuance of NOC from the State Government, which is granted after inspection of these colleges.
As court has already held that insatiable human greed has caused immense damage to our educational system as such the whole country will become nation of block heads, thus making its future dark.
Another report filed before the court also revealed that a mafia in league with BOSE authorities is involved in this huge scandal and almost 480 colleges are operating in the entire State out of which 80 are in Kashmir Division and 320 colleges are in Jammu Division and two FIRs have been registered with regard to ETT scam as one in Kashmir and another in Jammu Division.
In one of the communications sent by Chairman BOSE to IGP Crime because of the enquiry report of Joint Secretary BOSE and offence under Section 120-B (Criminal Conspiracy) has been added to the FIRs, which would mean that a conspiracy was allegedly hatched by the BOSE authorities with the owners of ETT institutes resulting in registering of FIR at Crime Branch Srinagar as well as Crime Branch Jammu.
Subsequently various college owners and some Board officials have been held guilty during the investigation conducted by Crime Branch and action as per law has been initiated against them and outcome of action taken is being submitted to the court from time to time.
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