n The CBI on Thursday conducted searches at around 16 different places in Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh in an ongoing investigation of a case related to alleged leakage of question paper of the examination for post of Assistant engineer (Civil) conducted by Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission(APPSC) on August 26 and 27.
“The searches 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, pen drive etc.,” the CBI said in a statement.
The CBI had registered a case on October 26 on the request of Arunachal Pradesh government and further notification from the Centre transferring the investigation of FIR No: 11/2022 dated September 27 (Vigilance) Police Station corresponding to Itanagar Police Station Case No. 229 dated September 10.
The said case was registered against Akhilesh Yadav, a private person of Jeju Institute, Itanagar, Papum Pare City, Arunachal Pradesh and unknown officials of APPSC on complaint related to the allegations of leakage of question paper before written examination for recruitment to the post of Assistant Engineer (Civil).
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.