Two “Naib Tehsildar” candidates who passed recruitment exam with flying colours landed in police custody
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in
Patiala police has arrested two candidates, who had cleared the recently held Naib Tehsildar exams ,Balraj Singh alias Vicky and Varinderpal Chaudhary.
Balraj Singh had given the test at Akal Degree College Mastuana District Sangrur and got second rank after the exam and Varinderpal Chaudhary had given the test at State College of Education at Patiala and placed at 21st in the results declared by the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC).
While confirming the arrests, Varun Sharma IPS, senior superintendent of Police, Patiala said “both are arrested on the basis of sufficient evidence. They have also revealed that the they used the electronic equipment in the naib Tehsildar recruitment exam held on May 22,2022.”
Sharma said the Patiala police has registered case number 238 dated 11.11.2022 under section 419,420,465,468,471,120 B IPC,66 D,I. T.Act 2008 at Police Station Kotwali Patiala. During the investigation the involvement of these two candidates were found and they were arrested for illegally passing the exam through electronic device. The arrested candidates Balraj Singh alias Vicky is a resident of village Basouhara, police station Moonak, district Sangrur and Varinderpal Chaudhary is a resident of village Dedhana, police station Ghaga, district Patiala. They have been arrested from Pisiana near Patiala.
Two “Naib Tehsildar” candidates who passed recruitment exam with flying colours landed in police custody . Earlier, Patiala Police had arrested 5 other accused Navraj Chaudhary alias Gogi, Gurpreet Singh alias Guri, Jatinder Singh alias Makhan, Sonu Kumar and Vijender Singh who are already in the police remand and their interrogation is going on.
The arrested persons have revealed during the investigation that they provided candidates GSM devices with SIM cards inserted in it and very small bluetooth ear buds for seamless connectivity. The candidate would carry the GSM device by concealing it, usually in shoes/socks etc. Thereafter, during the exam hours, the candidate would use previously agreed signals such as coughing/ tapping to communicate the test booklet series received by him to the person who is deputed for dictating the answers. The arrested accused and their associates would accordingly dictate the correct answers to the candidates during the test.
The arrested accused Varjinder Singh s/o Satyavan r/o Nachar Khera, Jind, Haryana, disclosed that dummy candidates, who had applied for the exams purely for the purposes of capturing the picture of question papers with the help of wireless cameras, would then send it outside to predetermined persons. The subject matter experts of different subjects from outside locations like Haryana, who had already been roped in this criminal conspiracy, would then solve the questions and accordingly answer key was prepared. The answer key was then dictated to the candidates via GSM/ bluetooth device.
November 19,2022
