103 firemen terminated over ‘compromised process of recruitment’ in J&K

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The medication of J&K Lieutenant Governor connected Monday (December 15, 2025) terminated the services of 103 unit of the Fire and Emergency Services Department implicit “compromised process” of recruitment.

The determination was made aft an enquiry committee of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), constituted to analyse the 2022 recruitment, recovered “large-scale tampering successful Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) sheets, fabricated scanned images of reply sheets and amerciable manipulation of merit list.

The probe bureau “conclusively confirmed manipulation of results successful favour of 106 candidates who were awarded marks acold successful excess of what they really secured, tampered integer grounds and transgression conspiracy.

“It has been established beyond uncertainty that the appointments of these 106 candidates were obtained fraudulently, done transgression means and result-manipulation, rendering their appointments void ab initio,” an order, issued by Chandraker Bharti, Principal Secretary to the Government, said.   

The bid said since these 106 individuals secured assignment done fraudulent means anterior to entering service, they bash not bask the protections contemplated nether Article 311 which provides the proviso of an accidental to beryllium heard.

The assignment of 3 candidates has been cancelled by the Director, Fire and Emergency Services, for not fulfilling the requisite formalities required for assignment successful authorities service.

Published - December 15, 2025 11:46 p.m. IST

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