Shimla: The state vigilance division on Tuesday arrested a former secretary of the Himachal Pradesh Staff Service Commission (HPSSC) in reference to the Junior Office Assistant (Information expertise) examination paper leak case. Jatinder Kumar was known as in for questioning on the vigilance police station in Hamirpur in reference to the case and later, arrested. He shall be produced in courtroom on Wednesday, vigilance officers mentioned on Tuesday evening.
DIG, Vigilance Bureau, G Shiva Kumar had on April 1 maintained that permission shall be sought from the federal government underneath part 17A of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 to register an FIR towards extremely positioned officers underneath scanner within the case. The former secretary of the fee had been known as a number of occasions for questioning and additional inquiry was happening towards him, he had said.
So far, leaks have been detected in about 30 examinations performed by the fee previously. The vigilance division is probing irregularities in 22 examinations and to date, 5 FIRs have been registered. A complete of 15 folks have been arrested in reference to the paper leak circumstances.
The JOA (IT) paper leak rip-off was unearthed on December 23 final yr when the vigilance sleuths arrested senior assistant of HP employees choice fee (HPSSC) Uma Azad red-handed with solved query paper and money amounting to Rs 2.5 lakhs, apart from laptop computer and different paperwork.
The state authorities had suspended the functioning of the HPSSC over the recruitment examination paper leak and postponed all of the examinations to be held.
