The Special Task Force claimed to have busted a gang involved in facilitating recruitment in the Irrigation department.
The STF sleuths nabbed four persons and recovered documents and other items from their possession. They registered a case in this regard with the Meerut police.
SSP (STF) Abhisekh Singh claimed that they received information that a gang was active in Meerut and was taking money from candidates and helping them in filling the OMR sheets and getting them recruited.
The SSP (STF) said that on Saturday, they got fresh inputs that the gang was present in Meerut to facilitate candidates appearing in the recruitment exam for tubewell operators in the Irrigation department.
He said the STF team rushed to the spot near Hanuman temple in Sadar Bazaar area and managed to arrest four members of the gang, including principle of a college in Muzaffarnagar, who turned out to be the gang leader.
The cops recovered 16 admit cards, five mobile phones, 10 photostat copies of OMR sheets, besides other documents.
During interrogation, those arrested revealed their identities as Yogesh Kumar, who is a principle, Ajay Singh, Saurabh Chaudhary and Anand Kumar, all of Bijnor. They disclosed that the gang collected Rs 5 lakh from each candidate and later helped them fill the OMR sheets to get selected.
The STF is making efforts to nab the remaining members of the gang.