Hyderabad: Three extra individuals, together with a girl, have been arrested by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) for his or her alleged function within the leak of sure TSPSC exams’ query papers, police mentioned on Thursday. Two of the arrested are staff of the Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) whereas the third particular person is a former outsourcing worker, they mentioned. With the most recent arrests, the entire variety of individuals held for allegedly leaking query papers rose to 12.
The three individuals arrested right this moment had cleared the Group-I preliminary examination (held in October final 12 months) and scored greater than 100 marks with the assistance of two accused who have been arrested earlier, police mentioned including, “The trio were party to the leak of Group-I preliminary exam.”
The SIT of Hyderabad Police, which took over the investigations into the case, arrested three extra accused throughout its ongoing probe to establish if there are any extra folks concerned within the case and whether or not every other query papers had additionally been leaked.
Nine folks, together with an Assistant Section Officer within the TSPSC, a contract worker of TSPSC, two candidates and a police constable, have been arrested on March 13 over their alleged involvement within the information breach — for stealing and leaking TSPSC’s Assistant Engineer (Civil) examination query paper. The SIT subsequently took the 9 accused into custody as a part of additional investigation.
The Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) on March 15 cancelled the Assistant Engineers (AE) examination held on March 5, following allegations that the query paper had been leaked.
Amid protests by opposition events and college students’ teams prior to now a number of days over the alleged query paper leak, the Commission on March 17 cancelled the Group-I preliminary examination and two different exams as nicely.
