3 more held for paper leak
ROHTAK/KARNAL/CHANDIGARH: Three persons were arrested on Sunday from Fatehabad in connection with the paper leak during the Haryana police constable recruitment written test held on Saturday.
Those arrested are Bhan singh of Kaithal district, and Kunal and Satish of Fatehabad. The Fatehabad police had registered a case under sections 417, 420, 511, and 120 B of the IPC.
Fatehabad DSP Daljeet Beniwal said that the accused were in possession of answer keys of the recruitment test.
“They were planning to sell the answer keys to aspirants at about ₹18 lakh. Kunal used to run a coaching centre in Fatehabad. The centre owner had procured the answer key of the paper after it got leaked. We have recovered answer keys from the mobile phone of the accused. Satish was also detained from the coaching centre. During the interrogation, they revealed that Bhan Singh of Kaithal had got them the answer key. We nabbed Bhan Singh also, who revealed he had procured the answer key from one Sandeep, while Ramesh was the mastermind of the paper leak. Both were arrested yesterday,” the DSP added.
Sent to police custody Three persons arrested for their involvement in the paper leak scam have been sent to nine-day police remand.
The police had arrested six persons for possessing answer keys of 98 questions and registered two FIRs. Officials said that five persons were arrested in the evening and the sixth accused was nabbed in the night from Hisar.
Kaithal superintendent of police Lokender Singh said the arrested accused were produced in a court and three of them were sent to police remand and the remaining to the judicial custody.
The HSSC had cancelled the exam following reports that the answer keys were circulated on social media.
Selja seeks probe by sitting HC judge
Haryana Congress president Kumari Selja on Sunday said that the layers gradually opening up in the constable exam leak case are raising big questions and asked the state government to hand over the investigation of this case to a sitting judge of the high court.