Thiruvananthapuram, Monday, December 06, 2010: State Revenue Minister KP Rajendran today opined that the PSC recruitment scam must not be politicized but must be dealt as a public issue. Speaking to the reporters here today, Minister stated that the cabinet would discuss whether the PSC had failed to report the vacancies at the appropriate time.

Additional District Magistrate (ADM) K. Vijayan would be suspended from service in connection with the PSC recruitment scam in which two persons obtaining jobs in Revenue Department in Wayanad by fake Public Service Commission orders and advice memos. The decision to suspend ADM has been taken as per the instructions of minister KP Rajendran.

The investigation has revealed that ADM K Vijayan had close connection with the Abhilash, UD clerk of Wayanad collectorate who had worked as the middle man in the PSC recruitment scam.
The police have taken into custody a woman and her father in connection with the PSC job scam in Wayanad. Those taken into custody have been identified as Jyothi of Kollam and her father Krishnan.

Meantime, the police gave started search operations to nab the missing employees identified as Kannan and Sabarinath, brothers of Jyothi, and Gopa Kumar who obtained jobs via bogus orders.
Special investigating team has reached Kollam from Wayanad to interrogate Jyothi. Officials are hoping to extract more details regarding the scam from Jyothi.

Jyothi had confessed to a private News channel she got appointment without appearing for PSC exam. “The job was secured by offering a sum of seven lakh rupees as bribe. We haven’t forged any document. They just asked for SSCL certificate, conduct certificate and photo. Abilash, UD clerk of Wayanad collectorate had worked as the middle man. Two of my brothers too had secured admission in the same manner.” Jyothi said.

“When I asked for advice memo, Abilash asked me to tell others, who seek it that the memo is with ADM.” Jyothi entered on leave, when the UD clerk raised some doubts about the documents.

When she asked for getting back the money, unless advice memo is not provided, Abilash informed he would get back after consulting others.

Eight persons have been so far identified as secured jobs in revenue department in Wayanad, using forged documents. Reliable sources hinted that the files relating to all the eight, who got appointed using forged documents are missing.