NDA principal booked for alleged irregularities in staff appointment
The CBI has booked Om Prakash Shukla, principal of the prestigious National Defence Academy (NDA), and four faculty members for alleged irregularities in appointment of teaching staff. Shukla, along with a political science professor, the head of department and an assistant professor in chemistry, and an assistant professor in mathematics, has been booked for criminal conspiracy, cheating and others under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
The accused were allegedly approving applicants' API scores fraudulently
A CBI official said they registered an FIR after receiving a complaint in the matter. The agency raided the NDA campus in Pune, offices of the accused as well as their homes. Appointments at the NDA are supervised by the UPSC. But the accused were reportedly approving API (Academic Performance Indicators) scores of applicants fraudulently, before sending them to UPSC for approval.
Shukla was in charge at NDA since 2011
The UPSC, unaware of what was happening at the NDA, was following rules and deciding appointments of professors and associate professors on the basis of the API scores the Academy had sent. Shukla had been heading the armed forces training institute since 2011.
