Raipur:
An offense has been registered against the captain of Chhattisgarh’s Ranji Trophy team for allegedly getting a job in the chief accountant-general audit’s office here by submitting false documents, police said on Thursday.
Vidhan Sabha police have filed a case against Harpreet Singh Bhatia (31), a resident of Balod district, for allegedly getting the job of auditor/accountant in the Indian Audit Accounts Department Office of the Principal Accountant General Audit with the help of a fake marksheet, one official said.
In 2014, the cricket cadre’s applications department had invited recruitment for the accountant/accountant position, he said.
After preliminary verification of the attested documents submitted by the cricketer, he was called up for field trials and based on his performance, Bhatia was selected in the likely list of candidates, the official said.
The cricketer had submitted a BCom diploma from Bundelkhand University Jhansi, and in order to verify the authenticity of the diploma, the department had contacted the university and learned that no such score sheet had been issued, after which a complaint was lodged with the police station from Vidhan Sabha, he said.
A case under Sections 420 (cheating), 467 (counterfeiting) and other relevant provisions of the IPC has been registered in this regard and the case is under investigation, the official said.
Bhatia was the member of the Indian squad in the 2010 ICC Under-19 cricket World Cup and was picked by the Pune Warriors India in the 2011 Indian Premier League. Later he was signed by Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2017.
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