The CBI on Friday said it has chargesheeted eight accused persons in connection with a case related to alleged leakage of question paper for recruitment examination of Assistant Engineer (Civil) conducted by the Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC).

The CBI filed the chargesheet against the accused persons before the Court of Special Judge, CBI Cases, Yupia (Arunachal Pradesh), the CBI said in a statement.

Those chargesheeted in the case are Akhilesh Yadav. (teacher of the private coaching institute), Taket Jerang, Tama Saroh, Thomas Gaduk, Tanyang Gaduk, Loth Ezing, Binam Jomang.and Talung Jomang. The CBI had registered the case on October 26 following a request from the Arunachal Pradesh government and further orders by the Centre for transferring the investigation of FIR No. 11/2022 dated September 27 of Special Investigation Cell (Vigilance) Police Station corresponding to Itanagar Police Station Case No. 229 dated September 10. The said case was registered against a private person of a Coaching Institute at Itanagar and unknown officials of APPSC) on a complaint related to the allegations of leakage of question paper before written examination for recruitment to the post of Assistant Engineer (Civil) conducted by APPSC on August 26 and 27.

The complainant (a candidate) had alleged that the accused (a teacher of the institute) was in possession of questions for the said examination disclosing leakage of paper by him in connivance with unknown officials of APPSC.

Searches were earlier conducted on November 3 at around 16 different places in Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh which resulted in recovery of incriminating documents/articles including fake/counterfeit stamps of executive magistrate of Arunachal Pradesh, Executive Engineer, State Bank of India, hard discs and pen drives. Further Investigation is continuing.