Lucknow: An investigation by the Uttar Pradesh Police has linked the alleged masterminds behind the February leak of the constable recruitment examination papers with the leaks of different authorities examination papers in Madhya Pradesh and Haryana.
After the February paper leaks changed into a boiling situation forward of the Lok Sabha polls, the UP authorities had nullified the constable and assessment officer and assistant assessment officer (RO-ARO) recruitment exams. The state police has up to now filed 178 circumstances and arrested 397 individuals within the two circumstances.
On Thursday, three males have been arrested for the constable examination paper leak and two others for the RO-ARO examination paper leak, main police to alleged mastermind Rajeev Nayan Mishra. In response to the UP Particular Activity Pressure (STF), which is probing the circumstances, Mishra, a B.Tech holder, was the supply of the RO/ARO recruitment examination leak.
The STF mentioned Mishra additionally requested Ravi Attri, an MBBS holder, to safe the constable recruitment examination paper beneath any circumstances.
Mishra additionally allegedly leaked the Nationwide Well being Mission (NHM) contractual nursing workers recruitment examination paper in February 2023, an investigation by the Madhya Pradesh Police had discovered. Apart from, he was additionally suspected to be one of many males behind the UP Instructor Eligibility Check (TET) paper leak in 2021, resulting in his arrest and imprisonment beneath numerous IPC sections in 2022.
In March final 12 months, the Madhya Pradesh police arrested Rajeev Nayan Mishra and Pushkar Pandey in reference to the leak of the NHM paper. The Gwalior courtroom, nonetheless, granted them bail in April. On the time, the MP Particular Investigation Workforce (SIT) probing the case had mentioned Mishra hacked the system of a Mumbai-based personal firm to leak the paper, and Pandey was a history-sheeter wished in an alleged homicide in Prayagraj since 2015.
Furthermore, Mishra and Attri allegedly leaked the All India Pre-Medical Check (AIPMT) contractual nursing workers recruitment paper in 2015. Attri was booked beneath sections of the IT Act at PGIMS Rohtak police station, Haryana, within the AIPMT case.
Further SP Brijesh Kumar Singh mentioned Mishra and Attri are on bail within the circumstances lodged towards them in MP and Haryana, respectively. The duo has not been arrested but in reference to the newest leaks.
UP Further Director Normal of Police (legislation and order) Amitabh Yash, in the meantime, informed ThePrint that the police are decided to go to the underside of the paper leak racket.
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Gujarat warehouse hyperlink to examination paper leak
Within the constable examination paper leak, UP Police Thursday arrested Abhishek Shukla, Shivam Giri, and Rohit Kumar. The trio as soon as labored collectively in Transport Company of India (TCI) Specific firm, a Gurgaon-based logistics firm, with a warehouse in Ahmedabad’s Kheda. They allegedly obtained the paper from that warehouse.
“Abhishek Shukla, Shivam Giri, and Rohit Pandey labored collectively within the TCI Specific firm and have been well-known to one another. All three collectively orchestrated the crime with others,” mentioned an announcement issued by UP STF Friday.
The assertion additionally mentioned Giri joined the Delhi workplace of TCI Specific in 2020 however was then transferred to the Kheda warehouse, the place he met Shukla and Pandey.
Shukla later give up the corporate, however Giri and Pandey continued working there.
A fourth particular person arrested within the case Friday, Shubham Mandal, is an MBBS physician who beforehand served at a main well being centre in Bihar’s Katihar and allegedly broke open a field to get the papers from the warehouse.
Mishra wished constable paper ‘come what could’
In response to the STF, Abhishek Shukla, who resides in Prayagraj, was in contact with Ravi Attri, a resident of Higher Noida’s Neemka village. The STF mentioned Attri knowledgeable Shukla that the constable examination paper could be with TCI Specific, after which Shukla requested Giri to tell him every time such materials reached the corporate warehouse.
“Attri had provided Rs 5 lakh for the paper leak and a complete of Rs 15-20 lakh after job completion. He additionally mentioned if any particular person apart from Giri helped in leaking the paper, he, too, would get Rs 5 lakh,” an STF officer mentioned.
The STF assertion added that Rajeev Nayan Mishra informed Attri that he ought to get the constable recruitment paper come what could. Mishra allegedly transferred Rs 3 lakh to Giri’s account for the paper and referred to as up Dr Shubham Mandal, a resident of Bihar and “an skilled in breaking the bins”.
The STF assertion additionally mentioned Shukla, Attri, and Mishra picked up Mandal from the Ahmedabad airport, and reached the corporate warehouse the place Giri and Pandey have been already current. Mishra then handed his telephone to Mandal and requested him to click on photographs of the paper.
Mishra and Attri allegedly gave the paper to others, together with Satish Dhankad, proprietor of Nature Valley Resort, Manesar, Gurgaon; and Dheeraj alias Goldie, proprietor of Bollywood restaurant, Sonipat.
In February, the constable examination paper was leaked to no less than 1,000 candidates on the Nature Valley Resort. Purported photos of the candidates gathering on the resort to listen to the accused studying out the paper went viral on social media a day earlier than the scheduling of the constable examination. A group of the UP STF reached the resort on 2 March.
The STF assertion mentioned the accused introduced candidates from throughout UP and Haryana to the resort in buses. Every candidate allegedly paid Rs 7-8 lakh to participate.
“UP police examination was scheduled for 17 and 18 February. Simply earlier than that, 1,500 college students have been dictated the query paper in a resort for Rs 7-8 lakh every,” alleged a publish on X.
यह तस्वीर गुड़गांव के एक रिजॉर्ट की बताई जा रही है! यूपी पुलिस का पेपर 17 और 18 फ़रवरी को था.इससे ठीक पहले 16 फरवरी को रिजॉर्ट में करीब 1500 छात्रों को 7 से 8 लाख रुपए लेकर लीक पेपर को पढ़ाया गया!#PaperLeak #UPPolice pic.twitter.com/LEauT0rgvz
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Vikram Pahal, a Delhi police constable from Haryana, allegedly gathered the candidates with assist from one Mahendra Sharma, who the STF arrested from Jind Tuesday. Pahal, who’s on the run, was in contact with Abhishek Shukla and Ravi Attri.
Mishra leaked RO-ARO examination paper too
Rajeev Nayan Mishra allegedly leaked the RO-ARO examination paper, too. This was revealed after the UP STF Thursday arrested two individuals, Arun Kumar Singh and Saurabh Shukla, within the case.
Singh was recruited as a UP police constable in 2011. However in 2019, the STF arrested him for serving to candidates cheat in a trainer recruitment examination on the Nationwide Inter Faculty in Hazratganj, Lucknow. In an announcement, the STF mentioned Singh was dismissed from service after the arrest, however since then, he has been leaking query papers of presidency exams and serving to candidates cheat.
The STF assertion added that Singh requested a number of individuals to leak papers and paid them cash. Shukla, supervisor of Lucknow’s Ganga Devi Memorial College, allegedly gave him the trainer recruitment examination paper.
It additionally mentioned that Singh met Shukla at an occasion and requested him to leak the RO/ARO examination paper. Shukla allegedly obtained the paper two to a few hours earlier than the examination from one Ajay Sharma. Sharma knowledgeable Shukla that Rajeev Nayan Mishra of Prayagraj sourced the paper. Shukla then forwarded the paper to Singh, who shared it with the candidates, teaching centres, and academy house owners, in line with the STF assertion.
Arun Singh additionally allegedly met Vyapam rip-off accused Sharad Singh in jail.
The STF assertion mentioned Sharad informed Arun about Mishra leaking examination papers and that they’d work with Mishra after their launch from jail.
(Edited by Madhurita Goswami)
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