Srinagar, Nov. 27 -- The Jammu and Kashmir Government has blacklisted LMES IT LLP and its key stakeholder Maharaj Krishan Wali, barring them from participating in any recruitment-related bid across the Union Territory, following a series of irregularities unearthed in the controversial 2020 Fire & Emergency Services recruitment process.

The decision comes after a multi-layered inquiry that began in 2022, involved a committee probe, and culminated in an Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) investigation that confirmed violations in the tendering and recruitment exercise.

The process was first scrutinized under a committee constituted on December 12, 2022, to probe allegations in the selection of Firemen and Firemen Drivers.

The committee submit...