Punjab Police clarifies no advertisement for recruitment of constables issued

Punjab Police on Monday clarified that it has t issued any vertisement inviting online applications for filling up posts of constables. statement came after a fake vertisement was circulated on social media.

police department has requested public to completely disregard purported vertisement captioned "Recruitment of Male & Female Constable – 2020 (District Police Cre & Armed Police Cre)", a spokesperson said.

"re is truth or veracity in purported vertisement. A perusal of document showed that material from earlier vertisements of Punjab Police h been used to misle public," he said.

fake vertisement was stated to be signed by former Punjab DGP Suresh Arora. He retired from service on February 7, 2019 and was longer heing Punjab Police force, spokesperson said.

A case under relevant sections of IPC and Information Techlogy Act, 2000 was registered at state Cyber Crime Cell, he said. "Investigations are in progress to identify and trace culprits," he ded.

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