During elections to the Goa Legislative Assembly in March 2012 some political parties complained that the Government had issued antedated appointment letters after the MCC had come into effect on 24 December 2011, and also accepted the joining reports of the new appointees in an expedited manner. An inquiry revealed that 140 candidates had been issued appointment letters which were antedated 20 December and, of these, 136 joined their places of postings between 24 and 26 December. It was found that two officials had moved the files outside the file monitoring system without entering the
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