A specal cell has been constituted under the Administration Reforms Department to conduct a comprehensive verficiation of all appointments made in the past 10 years, Achuthanandan said while replying to a submission.
There was no need for any social audit of the appointments made by Public Service Commission in view of the decision to have a verification of appointments, Achuthanandan said.
Eigth persons who got appointments with fake appointment orders and other documents had been removed from service.
Waynad District Collector and three other government officials including deputy collector had been suspended, he said.
Government has taken the incident very seriously and crime branch and vigilance investigation was progressing, he said.
To ensure that sucha fraud did not take place in future, department heads had been given instructions to regularise an employee only after getting police verfication report.
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