Punjab man dresses in women's clothes to give exam on girlfriend's behalf; caught
Chandigarh, Jan 15: Angrez Singh wore a Punjabi suit, wig, lipstick, bindi and bangles and tried to pass himself off as a woman at an exam held recently to recruit health workers. All for the sake of his girlfriend.
Singh was caught in Punjab's Faridkot on January 7 when he tried to appear in the government recruitment exam for 'multi-purpose health workers' in place of Paramjeet.
He even carried fake Aadhaar and voter ID cards. But his fingerprints did not match the biometric record of the original candidate, according to police.
The invigilators reported the matter to the police, they said.
The Fazilka resident has been booked for cheating, Faridkot Superintendent of Police (Headquarters) Jasmeet Singh said.
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States have money to give freebies but not to retired judges: Supreme Court
New Delhi (PTI): States have enough money to give freebies to people who do no work but they claim financial constraints when it comes to paying salary and pension to judges of the district judiciary, the Supreme Court said on Tuesday.
A bench of Justices B R Gavai and Augustine George Masih made the oral observation after Attorney General R Venkataramani submitted that the government has to consider financial constraints when deciding the pay and retirement benefits of judicial officers.
"The state's have all the money for the people who don't do any work. Come elections, you declare ladli behna and other new schemes where you pay fixed amounts. In Delhi, we have announcements now from some party or the other saying they will pay Rs 2500 if they come to power," the bench remarked.
Venkataramani submitted that genuine concerns of financial burdens must be taken into account.
The observation was made while the apex court was hearing a plea filed in 2015 by the All India Judges Association regarding pension to retired judges.
The top court had earlier said it was "pitiable" that some retired high court judges were getting a pension ranging between Rs 10,000 and Rs 15,000.
