Amid the controversy over alleged use of "unfair means" in exam to benefit the son of Minister Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed, J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday clarified that no new inquiry has been ordered.
"I have not ordered any probe. I have only handed over the file to the Crime Branch," Abdullah told reporters at a state-level educational conference in Jammu on Wednesday.
Abdullah, who was replying to questions about the probe in the case and the likely action against the Congress minister, said "it is not any new inquiry".
The chief minister further said "it is the job of Crime Branch to look into such allegations. I have given them seven days time".
"When the report would come to me, the next step would be taken," he said.
A local newspaper had carried a facsimile of an answersheet in two hand writings alleging that part of it had been written by an education official to help the minister's son pass secondary examination in 2009.
Rejecting the allegations, Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed, who was with the chief minister at the function, said, "I welcome the decision of the chief minister who has sent the file to Crime Branch.
"There is a tug of war among the officials of Board of School Education (BOSE) which has resulted in the controversy. It is also aimed at targeting me and maligning my image on the political front," the minister told reporters.
"I deny all these reports in the media. Probe was conducted and all such allegations found baseless," he said.
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