The police team investigating the Uttarakhand government recruitment exam question paper leak has ruled out the role of an organised gang behind the incident.
Dehradun DSP Ajay Singh said they have identified the individual who allegedly clicked images of the exam question paper from a centre and forwarded it. Singh added that they have got strong evidence against the person, who has not been identified.
The question paper of the Uttarakhand Subordinate Service Selection Commission’s written examination for graduate-level posts in various departments was held on Sunday. The three-hour-long exam began at 11 am. Within 30 minutes, the question paper of the examination had leaked.
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Social activist and Uttarakhand Swabhiman Morcha president Bobby Panwar alleged that the question paper had leaked. However, Dehradun police denied the incident, stating that “misleading posts were circulated on social media that the paper was leaked”. The clarification came a day after two people were arrested for offering recruitment in return for money. One of the two was the mastermind of a 2021 recruitment exam question paper leak.
The police have, however, filed a case against Panwar for circulating screenshots of the paper on social media without verification.
The police version is that a college professor, identified as Suman from Tehri Garhwal, received a WhatsApp message at 7.55 am on Sunday from the number of a man named Khalid Malik, who allegedly asked her whether she could solve the test as his sister had to take the exam. Suman got three pages of the question paper at 11.35 am, and in 10 minutes, she sent back the answers to Khalid’s number, according to the Indian Express.
Sumar contacted Bobby Panwar after she became suspicious about whether the exam was actually scheduled that day. She forwarded him the three pages along with the handwritten answers on WhatsApp at 12:28 pm. “Panwar told her not to tell anyone about the matter,” said the FIR.
The police said the initial probe revealed that there was no leak, but a cheating, and the aim was to sensationalise and malign the recruitment process.
