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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a chargesheet against the Principal of the National Defence Academy (NDA) in connection with a case registered by the agency against five faculty members in 2018 under charges of malpractices, including submitting false certificates and documents for selection and appointment at the tri-services academy.
The CBI had on May 8, 2018, booked five senior academic faculty members of the NDA, including the Principal Om Prakash Shukla, on the charges of cheating, forgery and criminal misconduct, among others. A month after the offence was registered, the CBI had conducted searches on the premises of the NDA and houses of the accused faculty members. The FIR in the case had also mentioned the suspected involvement of unidentified officials from the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), which facilitates the recruitment of the faculty members, and those from the He
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The Central Bureau of Investigation has filed a charge sheet against a former Principal of the National Defence Academy (NDA) in Maharashtra’s Khadakwasla in connection with fraudulent appointments to various posts of the institution’s civilian faculties.
The agency had registered the case against Om Prakash Shukla and others on May 8, 2018, on the allegation that appointment of several civilian faculties were made on the basis of exaggerated claims about teaching/research experience and Academic Performance Index scores. Subsequently, the premises of the suspects were also searched.
The CBI found that Dr. Shukla secured appointment as a professor of Economics at the Academy in 2007-08 and then as its Principal in 2011, allegedly through fraudulent means. The appointments were made on the basis of false claims made in his applications to the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) regarding his teaching/research experience, the agency alleged.