JODHPUR, April 12 -- The Rajasthan high court has granted interim protection from arrest to two petitioners against whom the special operations group (SOG) of the state police has filed an FIR alleging that they had secured a government job using a fake disability certificate. A bench of justice Baljinder Singh Sandhu, while hearing the matter on Thursday, directed the investigating officer to remain present with the case diary on the next hearing on April 17. Petitioner Mohit Singh (27), a resident of Abu Road said that he never applied for any government job, yet the SOG named him as an accused in the case. While Prashant Singh (28) has claimed that he never used any disability certificate in a recruitment process but was still named as an accused in the same FIR. Both have moved the high court seeking quashing of the FIR registered against them. Counsel for the petitioners, Khet Singh Rajpurohit, submitted before the court that the complainant had lodged a false complaint in an attempt to blackmail his clients. Rajpurohit argued that following the complaint, the SOG conducted a preliminary inquiry during which the petitioners' certificates were verified and found to be genuine. He further submitted that the disability certificates had certain corrections for which applications seeking rectification were submitted to the concerned authority in 2022. However, when no response was received, the petitioners surrendered those certificates and never used them in any recruitment process. The counsel said that despite this, during the investigation of other recruitment-related complaints, police allegedly included the petitioners as accused without any factual basis and filed an FIR with SOG on March 24. The FIR alleges that several persons obtained government jobs under disability quota using forged disability certificates. The court directed the public prosecutor to produce the investigating officer along with the case diary on the next hearing. Until then, the petitioners will not be arrested over the FIR....