TNPSC exam scam: One more arrested
Bosco.Dominique@timesgroup.com
Cuddalore:29.01.2020
The CBCID sleuths on Tuesday arrested one more person from Cuddalore district in connection with the Tamil Nadu public service commission (TNPSC) Group IV examination exam fraud. The arrested was identified as Sivaraj, 34, of Panruti in Cuddalore district, who appeared from a centre at Ramanathapuram district in the state.
Sivaraj is related to two men — Rajasekar and Srinivasan — from Cuddalore district, who were arrested in the examination fraud. Rajasekar was arrested on January 25 in Cuddalore district while Srinivasan was apprehended at Arni in Tiruvannamalai district on Monday.
Inquiries by the investigation agency revealed that Sivaraj, Rajasekar and Srinivasan had approached the same middleman to crack the competitive exam. They had appeared for the exam from the same centre in Ramanathapuram district, as instructed by the middleman. They had secured identical marks (288) and claimed the joint-eighth rank in the state.
Sivaraj, a differentlyabled person, said he had paid ₹8 lakh to get a government job to boost his chances of finding a suitable bride .
The investigating agency identified four people from Cuddalore district who had appeared for the exam from the two centres in Ramanathapuram district following allegations that most of the people who appeared from the centres in the district secured the top 100 ranks. The agency has arrested three people so far and has launched a hunt for the fourth man.
The TNPSC had banned 99 candidates for life for indulging in malpractices in the examination. The modus operandi of the gang is to instruct the candidates to mark the answers using a pen with a special ink that disappears after a few hours. The middlemen and corrupt government servants will mark the right answers in the candidates' answer sheets later.
More than 13 lakh candidates appeared for the TNPSC Group IV examination on September 1 last year. The commission published the results of the exam on November 12.
Bosco.Dominique@timesgroup.com
Cuddalore:29.01.2020
The CBCID sleuths on Tuesday arrested one more person from Cuddalore district in connection with the Tamil Nadu public service commission (TNPSC) Group IV examination exam fraud. The arrested was identified as Sivaraj, 34, of Panruti in Cuddalore district, who appeared from a centre at Ramanathapuram district in the state.
Sivaraj is related to two men — Rajasekar and Srinivasan — from Cuddalore district, who were arrested in the examination fraud. Rajasekar was arrested on January 25 in Cuddalore district while Srinivasan was apprehended at Arni in Tiruvannamalai district on Monday.
Inquiries by the investigation agency revealed that Sivaraj, Rajasekar and Srinivasan had approached the same middleman to crack the competitive exam. They had appeared for the exam from the same centre in Ramanathapuram district, as instructed by the middleman. They had secured identical marks (288) and claimed the joint-eighth rank in the state.
Sivaraj, a differentlyabled person, said he had paid ₹8 lakh to get a government job to boost his chances of finding a suitable bride .
The investigating agency identified four people from Cuddalore district who had appeared for the exam from the two centres in Ramanathapuram district following allegations that most of the people who appeared from the centres in the district secured the top 100 ranks. The agency has arrested three people so far and has launched a hunt for the fourth man.
The TNPSC had banned 99 candidates for life for indulging in malpractices in the examination. The modus operandi of the gang is to instruct the candidates to mark the answers using a pen with a special ink that disappears after a few hours. The middlemen and corrupt government servants will mark the right answers in the candidates' answer sheets later.
More than 13 lakh candidates appeared for the TNPSC Group IV examination on September 1 last year. The commission published the results of the exam on November 12.
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