The CBI has arrested three persons in connection with the leak of question paper of Staff Selection Commission’s Common Graduate Level examination.
The arrests came after recent searches at four locations — one in the national capital and three in Ghaziabad, officials said.
Akshay Kumar Malik, the alleged masterminded of the leak of examination paper, besides two other accused persons — Sandeep Mathur and Dharmendra were arrested after the searches at the four locations here and Ghaziabad, they said.
The CBI had registered an FIR against 17 persons, including ten employees of Sify Technologies Pvt Ltd, in connection with the question paper leak.
The paper of the second tier of the Combined Graduate Level (CGL) examination, 2017, which took place on February 21, 2018, and its answer key were allegedly leaked and became viral on social media before the examination began, according to the FIR.
The examination papers were set in such a way that an examinee got the questions in a certain sequence, officials added.