Teachers arrested for making plans to leak question paper

Teachers arrested for making plans to leak question paper

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Jaisalmer:26.09.2021

Balotara police in Barmer district busted an inter-state gang of 20 members who were planning to leak REET question paper and make dummy candidates appear in the exam. Among those arrested are two government school teachers.

Six government school teachers and a police constable, who are also part of the gang, managed to escape.

The gang used to make dummy candidates sit in competitive exams organised in the state and also leaked question papers for a hefty price. Rs 9.50 lakh cash was recovered from the two arrested government teachers.

Barmer SP Anand Sharma said on September 24, Balotara SHO Babulal Raigar received information that two members of an inter-state gang were planning to provide REET paper for Rs 12 lakh before the exams and charge Rs 15 lakh for dummy candidates to appear in the exam.

He said a team was formed under the SHO and it raided a house on mega highway and arrested two culprits, Ramesh Kumar (36) a resident of Balotara and a government teacher, and Suresh Kumar (35), a resident of Jalore.

SP said the documents and applications of candidates from many districts and other forged documents were also recovered from the culprits. Police claimed Ramesh Kumar accepted providing question papers five hours before an exam and revealed that e-mitra owner Mohan Lal, resident of Dedwa in Sanchore, used to help in photo editing of the applications.

The accused in police custody at Balotara on Saturday