The Special Task Force claimed to have busted a gang of ‘paper solvers’ with the arrest of 10 persons for allegedly facilitating copying in the Group D exam conducted by the Railways Recruitment Board (RRB).
The arrests, including that of gang leader Rahul Kumar, were made from Kalyanpur area of Kanpur on Friday night, the STF officials confirmed.
Giving details of the breakthrough made by the Special Task Force sleuths, IG (STF) Amitabh Yash said that they were getting information that proxy candidates were being used for the recruitment examination conducted by RRB.
The STF team worked on the inputs and learnt that the gang provided proxy candidates who solved the papers for the original candidates. It was also confirmed that the gang used to take huge sum for providing the ‘solvers’.
The gang was also making huge money by leaking examination papers to candidates.
Yash said that on Friday night, the STF team conducted raids on some hideouts of the gang in Kalyanpur area of Kanpur and managed to arrest 10 members of the gang.
He said the team recovered eleven mobile phones, 21 admit cards, five blank cheques of SBI and HDFC banks and some other things from the possession of the arrested gang members.
Those arrested revealed their identities as Rahul Kumar (gang leader) hailing from Prayagraj district, Mahesh Kumar Yadav, Pravesh Yadav, Sunil Kumar, Lalit Kumar Yadav, all residents of Sopoul in Bihar, Ajay Kumar Tati, Vijay Kumar Malakar, both hailing from Nalanda district of Bihar.
Three candidates who were arrested are identified as Ajay Kumar Yadav, Ram Babu Pal, both hailing from Prayagraj, and Mukesh Kumar Singh of Gopalganj in Bihar.
Yash said that during interrogation, the gang members disclosed that Rs 5-6 lakh was charged from each candidate for taking the help of the gang.
Further investigations are on.