Shimla (Himachal Pradesh): Naveen Tanwar, an IAS official from the 2019 batch, has been suspended on Friday, April 5, after he allegedly took the bank clerk recruitment exam on someone else's behalf. The suspension comes after Tanwar received a three-year prison sentence earlier last month.
Judicial Magistrate Shivam Verma of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) fined Additional District Magistrate (ADM) Tanwar Rs 50,000 but he was released from custody after the CBI court granted him bail. In this case, the Law Department clarified that if an employee or officer remains in jail for 48 hours, then he should automatically be considered 'suspended'.
Naveen was currently serving as the Additional Deputy Commissioner/Project Director of the District Rural Development Agency (DRDA) in the Chamba district.
As per sources, on December 13, 2014, Tanwar, a resident of Noida, Uttar Pradesh, took the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) clerk recruitment exam at the Ideal Institute of Technology, Ghaziabad, in place of Amit Singh from Jhansi. The CBI had apprehended the Solver gang, in which Tanwar was one of the six accused. In 2019 during the hearing, Tanwar was questioned and interrogated.
