Seven persons were arrested today in Gajapati district for allegedly printing fake question-answer papers and selling them to candidates of Odisha Teachers Eligibility Test (OTET) which was held across the state on Sunday.
The seven were arrested from different villages of Gosani block and Rs 40,700 along with forged answer papers seized from them during raids conducted at various places, Gajapati Superintendent of Police Satyajit Nayak said.
During interrogation of the arrested persons it was found they had forged and printed the answer key, misleading and cheating the authorities as well as the candidates of the OTET exam, he said.
The accused were identified as K Subash, D Subramaniam, Girish Samal, Kishore Samal, Jeetendra Behera, Sushant Kumar Jena and T Kailash, who were booked under section 420, 468, 34 of the IPC along with section 9 of the Odisha Conduct of Examination Act and forwarded to the court, the police said.
It may be noted here that OTET examinations were held on December 7 as per schedule as the authorities had maintained there was no leakage of question papers.
