Overview

• Fraudulent compassionate appointments made between December 2024 and April 2025 were secured using fabricated death certificates and affidavits.
• Six individuals, including Brijesh Kol, have been named in the FIR for obtaining school department jobs through forged documents.
• District Education Officer Sudama Gupta reported 36 compassionate hires last year, with ten candidates ignoring notices and five confirmed to have used fake papers.
• Rewa division commissioner Babu Singh Jamod has ordered a three-year audit of compassionate appointments across Rewa, Satna, Sidhi and Singrauli districts.
• A proposal for departmental action has been sent to the state education department against the nodal officer and the district education officer, and the recruitment clerk has been suspended.