Four more arrested in Bihar PSC exam question paper leak case

The Bihar police on Sunday claimed to have busted an organised crime gang which was behind the leak of provincial civil services exam question paper last week with the arrest of four persons from whose possession a huge quantity of gadgets have also been seizedAccording to the Economic Offence Unit EOU of the police which has been entrusted with the probe the gang was headed by Anand Gaurav alias Pintu Yadav an engineering graduate who was arrested in connection with a teachers recruitment scam in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh in 2015An alumnus of National Institute of Technology Yadav apparently took to crime for quick money and he is also wanted in a twoyear old murder case in Munger district the EOU said here in a releaseWhile Yadav along with other associates was being traced Rajesh Kumar one of the arrested persons who is employed as a clerk in the state agriculture department spilled the beans on himRajesh Kumar 39 lived in a rented house in East Patel Nagar locality of the city from where a laptop more than 30 SIM cards of different network providers five pen drives and 16 earphones have been seized the EOU saidBased on his tipoff a house in Lohanipur locality rented by Yadav which served as the gangs iquestcontrol roomiquest was also raidedRecoveries made on the premises included Rs 292 lakh in cash seven walkietalkie sets and more than 100 GPS devicesBesides records of six bank accounts handled by Yadav were found in which more than Rs 12 lakh were deposited All these accounts have been attached said the EOUBased on Rajesh Kumars inputs three other persons Krishna Mohan Singh 41 who teaches at a high school Nishikant Kumar Rai 33 and Sudhir Kumar Singh 40 have also been arrested it saidKrishna Mohan Singh and Nishikant Rai resided in different localities of Patna while Sudhir Kumar Singh was a resident of Aurangabad districtEarlier the EOU had arrested four persons in Bhojpur district where anomalies in conducting the exams at Veer Kunwar Singh College one of the examination centres for the preliminary tests held on May 8 blew the whistle on the paper leakCandidates had raised an alarm when they got the question papers late though some iquestexamineesiquest were allowed to solve their papers inside a closed room and permitted to carry their mobile phones alongSoon screenshots of the question paper went viral on social media prompting the Bihar Public Service Commission BPSC to cancel the examinations within a few hoursThose arrested from Ara the headquarters of Bhojpur district included a BDO who was deployed at the examination centre as a static magistrate besides the principal and two lecturers of the collegeThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever