The Asif Nagar Police and Commissioner’s Task Force (W) on Saturday arrested two sanitary field assistants of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) for allegedly preparing and illegally using thumb impressions to record the attendance of sanitation workers. Arrested.
Police said that Rudroj Prabhakar, supervisor of GHMC and M. Rajesh, a contract sweeper working in the twelfth office of Khairatabad Circle, prepared fake fingerprints/thumb impressions of 20 sweepers under him. They allegedly used synthetic adhesives and wax to prepare thumb impressions, to mark attendance in the biometric machine when sanitation workers were absent and claim wages.