One held for issuing fake appointment letter

Kolkata: Bidhannagar South police station has arrested a person for allegedly issuing a fake appointment letter to a job seeker against Rs 3 lakh. The accused Gobinda Ghosh was produced before the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate's (ACJM) Court on Tuesday and remanded to 3 days police custody.

According to police, Jhilik Nayak, a resident of Daspur in West Midnapore, went to West Bengal Health Recruitment Board (WBHRB) on Monday along with one Debi Prasad Mishra, with an appointment letter in the name of Nayak for a Group D post, which was issued by the Director of Health Service (DHS).

Nayak claimed that she had gone there to verify her appointment letter. Seeing the letter, Saibal Chakraborty, Secretary & Controller of Examinations of WBHRB got surprised as he had no intimation of such a vacancy. He immediately enquired and found the appointment letter to be fake. Nayak and Mishra were detained and questioned. Later, it was revealed that Mishra, who is an ECG technician of Taldyangra Rural Hospital in Bankura, had come there with Nayak but did not revealed his identity. Nayak informed that Ghosh, who is a resident of Ghola area in Sodepur took Rs 3 lakh from her, promising a job. She also stated that Ghosh went with her but was waiting outside. Immediately, officials and staff from WBHRB detained Ghosh.