Two persons recently arrested in connection with the leak of examination paper for the recruitment of constables into Delhi Police have purportedly revealed that the papers made their way out directly from the printing press.
With the arrests of Amar and Gorakh Nath, the police have now held 27 persons in connection with the case so far. The leak surfaced in May.
Gorakh Nath, an employee of the printing press, smuggled a question paper out of the printing press by hiding it inside his shoe and then passed in to Amar, said the police.
Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Yadav said that in the course of investigations several modules across four States, which worked in coordination as a syndicate, were busted. “Interrogation of two members of the Rewari module revealed that the main module and kingpin were based in Bihar from where one Vikas was arrested. He told us that it was another Bihar resident Amar who had procured the question paper. Amar was arrested at Minto Road on Monday,” he said.
At Amar’s instance, the printing press employee Gorakh Nath was held.
“Gorakh Nath admitted that he was the main source of leak at the printing press. He had procured the paper and given it to Amar. Employed at the press and deployed at the cutting machine where the question papers were being sorted, Gorakh got hold of the constable recruitment question paper, hid it inside his shoe and smuggled it out,” said Mr. Yadav.
Once with Amar, its copies were made and circulated.
On the methods employed in finding “clients” who would pay to buy the question papers, Mr. Yadav said the gang first linked the question paper to the examination it was for.
“The linking depends on the number of questions, time provided for the exam, type of questions and break up of marks. Once that is done, the candidates are procured by a well-integrated network of touts and coaching institutes. These touts are the ones who quote the price for the answers to the question papers. In the constable recruitment exam, the touts allegedly charged Rs.5 to 6 lakhs from each candidate,” Mr. Yadav said.
The question papers are generally solved by school teachers, said the police adding that the syndicate is a conglomerate of coaching centres, touts, school teachers, property dealers, procurers, analyser and solvers -- who are all well-educated and connected.
