Role of 2 more persons suspected in paper leak

LUCKNOW: Involvement of two more persons, including a Meerut college student, is suspected in the tubewell operators’ recruitment examination question paper leak.

The police have launched a manhunt to nab the suspects after which the source of the leak and information about other racketeers may come to light.

Earlier, the UP Special Task Force (STF) had arrested eleven people, including a primary

school teacher Sachin Singh Chowdhary, from Meerut, for their alleged involvement in leaking the question papers of the recruitment exam.

The arrests were made a few hours before the recruitment examination was scheduled to start at 364 centres across UP on September 2.

The exam was cancelled soon after the authorities were informed about the paper leak.

“We are yet to ascertain the source of the paper leak. This can be revealed after the arrest of the two new suspects, including a local college student,” said a police official associated with the investigation.

He said the two new suspects were said to be the link between the main supplier of question papers and Sachin Singh Chowdhary who arranged aspirants willing to pay for getting the papers before exams.

“The racketeers sold the leaked question papers for around Rs 7 lakh each,” he said.

The official said that police teams were also questioning the employees of the printing press concerned and the UP Subordinate Service Selection Commission (UPSSSC) -- the nodal agency for conducting examinations for direct recruitments to group ‘C’ posts.

The tubewell operators’ recruitment exam was scheduled for filling 3,210 vacancies. Nearly two lakh aspirants had registered for it.