STF busts solvers’ gang, arrests 11 from Lko, Kanpur

LUCKNOW: As many as 11 people including four solvers and three solvers’ gang operators, were arrested by UP Special Task Force from Lucknow and Kanpur during civil court staff recruitment examination on Sunday. The STF officials said eight people were arrested from three exam centres of Lucknow while three others were arrested from two centres of Kanpur. STF SSP Abhishek Singh said, “Efforts are on to arrest the candidates who had hired the solvers to crack the recruitment exam.”

LUCKNOW : As many as 11 people, including four solvers and three solvers’ gang operators, were arrested by the UP Special Task Force from Lucknow and Kanpur during civil court staff recruitment examination on Sunday.

The STF officials said eight people were arrested from three exam centres of Lucknow while three others were arrested from two centres of Kanpur.

STF senior superintendent of police (SSP) Abhishek Singh said, “In Lucknow, one solver Avinash Kumar, the candidate Vineet Kumar Singh and three gang operators Diwakar Singh, Pushpak Kumar and Suchit Yadav were arrested from Bal Nikunj Inter College in Madiaon while one solver Ankit Kumar Singh and the candidate Pravin Kumar were arrested from Queens’ Inter College, Lalbagh.” He said another solver Vikas Kumar Vaish in Lucknow was arrested from Exon Montessori Girls Degree College, Rajajipuram while the candidate, Chandrakant in whose place Vaish was appearing in the exam managed to escape. The SSP said one solver Abhinav Yadav, who was appear- ing in place of Kuldeep Yadav, was arrested from Khalsa Inter College in Kanpur and another solver Aditya Yadav appearing in place of one Avinash Yadav was arrested from HP Shiksha Niketan Inter College. The gang mastermind Rahul Yadav was also arrested from outside Khalsa Inter College. He said efforts are on to arrest the candidates who had hired the solvers to crack the recruitment exam and further efforts are on to extract information about other people associated with the solver’s gang.

Similarly, the STF had arrested at least 27 people, including a Lucknow police constable and an intermediate school principal, from Lucknow, Prayagraj and other UP districts on January 6 for rigging the examination for recruitment of 69,000 assistant teachers in the basic education department. On Dec 22, 2018, the STF had exposed major anomalies during recruitment examination organised by Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Services Selection Commission (UPSSSC) for three different posts and arrested 29 people from Lucknow and other districts.