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was yet to be set and also the process
of interview, therefore, tentatively
I am of the view that the inquiry
should have been conducted at much
higher level which is now to be con-
sidered and decided by this court….”
The result of the exam was placed
before the court in a sealed cover and
it was found that Sushila and Sunita
had topped the exam. The single
judge ordered, “in the meantime,
the declaration of the preliminary
examination result is hereby stayed”.
Dr. Balwinder Sharma and Ms. Sunita winder Sharma, Registrar (Recruit- “The registrar recruitment of this
during the last one year, indicate that ment) on the basis of preliminary court is directed to a file affidavit
the matter requires a deeper probe. enquiry”. stating as to who had handled the
It has been established that examination papers right from the
Sharma, the main accused and a Genesis of the controversy time it was set till it was distributed
former registrar of the Punjab and On March 20, the Haryana Public in the examination hall and also
Haryana High Court, allegedly gave Service Commission advertised 109 disclose the name of the officials who
the paper to Sunita, who shared it posts of HCS (judicial branch) for have been deputed in handling and
with her friend Sushila. Both Sharma recruitment to subordinate judicial printing of the papers officially and
and Sunita duped several people. services. Suman, an advocate, applied whether anybody else entered the
According to the 2,400-page charge- for the same and started attending room where the papers are printed
sheet filed in the trial court, Sunita, Jurist Academy in Chandigarh for without being deputed for the same..”
through her roommate Ayushi, a preliminary examination. After the single judge passed the
student, procured a SIM in the name The petitioner and her husband, in order indicating involvement of
of a former employee with a tel- order to elicit truth, started convers- high and mighty, the members of the
ecom company. She gave the SIM to ing with Sushila regarding avail- recruitment committee approached
Sharma, who then used it to register ability of question paper. Somewhere the acting Chief Justice of Punjab
with cab aggregators Uber and Ola around July 16, Sushila told Suman and Haryana High Court on August
with fake names. Between January that she had struck a deal with Sunita 28 itself seeking transfer of the case
and April 2017, he booked the cab and disclosed 5-6 questions which from the single judge.
twelve times to go from the high she said would come in the pre- Suman then moved the Supreme
court to a temple in Sector 18 temple, liminary examination. Suman was Court seeking transfer of her petition.
near which Sunita stayed. shocked to realise that all those ques- The Supreme Court, however, refused
Sunita reportedly told the SIT that tions did come in the preliminary to entertain the transfer petition and
she procured her secret number in examination. Sushila had also told suggested that it can be approached
the name of Naresh Sharma, who Suman that no amount of prepara- after the high court decides the mat-
sells flowers outside the temple and tion would help as all the post for the ter after which Suman withdrew her
also runs a canteen. Naresh told the general category have already been transfer petition. On September 15,
police that Sunita continuously pes- booked or sold. a three-judge bench of the Punjab
tered him for SIM claiming she didn’t and Haryana High Court directed
have a Chandigarh address. Sunita Taking serious view of the matter Chandigarh police to register an FIR
also got a SIM from autorickshaw A single judge took note of the mat- in the matter. On September 18, it
driver Varinder Kumar registered on ter and on August 8, summoned the constituted a three-member SIT and
Jugnoo auto hiring app by luring him Registrar-General who informed that in November, Sunita was arrested
with the promise of getting a peon’s an enquiry is being conducted. from Delhi. The Chandigarh police
job in the high court. She often used On August 16, the single judge had will have to pull up its socks and do
his service for commuting and also ordered “Since it is claimed in the pe- investigations property as it won’t be
got him to deliver tiffin and fruits to tition that not only the paper of HCS able to put chilies in the eyes of the
Sharma. preliminary examination was leaked Court, as observed by the Punjab and
The High Court constituted Com- but it was a whole package involving Haryana High Court.
mittee recommended that regular the main examination which is yet
enquiry be initiated against Dr. Bal- to be conducted and for which paper letters@tehelka.com

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