Gujarat: 2 more held in police constable exam paper leak case

Two more persons have been arrested by Gujarat Police in connection with a leak of the examination for police constable's post.

This takes the number of arrests in the case to 13.

Vineet Kumar was arrested by a team of Gujarat Police in Delhi and brought to Gandhinagar, while Ashok Sahu, resident of Ratlam in Madhya Pradesh, was held in Indore and will be brought here by midnight, Gandhinagar Superintendent of Police Mayur Chavda said.

Kumar had allegedly made arrangements for the places in Delhi where the candidates were shown the leaked question paper, the SP said.

Sahu, arrested earlier this year for leaking the question paper of a competitive exam in Madhya Pradesh and released on bail later, allegedly met Nilesh Chauhan, Suresh Pandya, Ashwin Parmar and Manish Singh among others at a hotel in Ahmedabad before the December 2 examination.

"They met at a hotel on November 28 and hatched the conspiracy to make money by leaking the paper. Apart from Sahu, other persons who took part in the meeting have been identified but not arrested yet," Chavda said.

"After hatching the conspiracy, they took the candidates to Delhi by road and air, where they were shown the question paper in batches of five or seven and then brought back," the SP said.

Police also took some of the arrested candidates to Delhi to identify the places where they were shown the paper.

Police will soon identify the "channel from which the paper was leaked and processed", Chavda added.

Around 8.75 lakh candidates were to appear for the examination for 9,700 posts of constable across 2,440 centres in the state on December 2. After the leak came to light, it was cancelled.

A fresh examination will be held on January 6, the government announced last week.