On Saturday, Hyderabad police arrested Warangal Electricity Divisional Engineer (DE) Ramesh for allegedly purchasing and selling the Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) Assistant Engineer exam question paper.
Four candidates who purchased AE papers from Ramesh have been arrested and questioned.
The SIT has discovered that more than 20 candidates took the question paper from Ramesh. It is making arrangements to arrest 10 more people.
It is known that Lokin Satish Kumar, who wrote the AE exam, was arrested on Friday. Together with these two, the number of accused has reached 46. In this, the SIT has arrested 45 people.
The SIT compiled a list of the 100 toppers in each exam and is currently verifying their information, including Call Detail Records (CDR), before proceeding with the case. As part of the investigation, the teams traveled to various districts in Telangana.
During their investigation, the police discovered that the middlemen obtained a list of candidates who applied for the TSPSC exam and contacted them after purchasing the question paper from Rajasekhar Reddy and Praveen Kumar.
Initially, the Begum Bazaar police filed a case against nine people in connection with the TSPSC paper leak and brought them before the court. The case has been assigned to the Special Investigation Team, and the investigation is being overseen by Additional CP (Crimes) A R Srinivas. Praveen Kumar, Rajasekhar Reddy, Renuka – a Hindi pandit and her husband Dakiya Naik who works with the rural development department, are among those arrested in the case.
Rajasekhar had obtained a section officer’s login information and used it to log into the confidential system’s computers and copy question papers onto a pen drive.
A parallel investigation into alleged money laundering is being conducted by the Enforcement Directorate. The ED believes that large amounts of money have changed hands and verifying the bank accounts of the suspects arrested. The ED questioned several persons including the suspects and the TSPSC officials in the case.
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