{"id":18982,"date":"2026-05-05T17:52:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=18982"},"modified":"2026-05-05T17:52:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:52:22","slug":"eow-busts-health-educator-recruitment-scam-accused-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/eow-busts-health-educator-recruitment-scam-accused-held\/","title":{"rendered":"EOW busts health educator recruitment scam, accused held"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Srinagar, May 05: <\/strong>The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) Kashmir on Tuesday cracked a recruitment fraud case in the Health Department and arrested a senior official for his alleged role in facilitating fake appointments, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, a spokesperson said the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) Kashmir of Crime Branch J&amp;K has conducted searches in connection with FIR No. 19\/2017 registered under Sections 420, 467, 468, and 471 RPC of Police Station Crime Branch Kashmir (now EOW Kashmir) and arrested a habitual offender, Shahnawaz Ahmad Mir, Senior Assistant in the Health Department and resident of Tankipora Shaheed Gunj Srinagar, for his involvement in the case.<\/p>\n<p>He said the case originated from a communication received from the Deputy Director Health Services Kashmir, indicating that one Bashir Ahmad Sofi of Mazhama Budgam had fraudulently secured his appointment as a Health Educator by producing forged transfer orders and a fabricated Last Pay Certificate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvestigation revealed that the accused illegally entered service at Block Sheeri Baramulla and drew salary, causing wrongful loss to the state exchequer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He said, further investigation has revealed Shahnawaz Ahmad Mir\u2019s involvement in multiple similar cases, which are under probe or have been charge-sheeted. Further investigation in the instant case is ongoing.\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, May 05: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) Kashmir on Tuesday cracked a recruitment fraud case in the Health Department and arrested a senior official for his alleged role in facilitating fake appointments, officials said. In a statement, a spokesperson said the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) Kashmir of Crime Branch J&amp;K has conducted searches in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18984,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18982\/revisions\/18984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}