Tihar jail terminates 50 employees after biometric mismatch

The Tihar Jail administration has served termination notice to its 50 employees after a verification drive found a mismatch in their biometric identification records, officials said on Saturday. Officials said that 50 terminated employees were among the 450 on probation recruited after an exam and it is suspected that someone else had appeared for them in the exam.

According to the Tihar Jail administration, among these 50 terminated employees, 39 are warders, 9 are assistant superintendent and 2 are matron.

The notice was served as per the direction of the Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board (DSSB), which had conducted the exam and recruited about 450 applicants for these three posts, officials said. 

Of these 450 employees, the biometric identification did not match for 50 of them, due to which the notice of termination has been served to them, they added. 

"It is suspected that somebody else had taken their exam," an official said.

All these employees were on probation period for two years, the official said, adding that they have to respond within one month on the notice.