Paper leaked from Sanand press; 3 held

GSSSB EXAM

Paper leaked from Sanand press; 3 held

Ambulance Driver, Nurse Among Accused

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Ahmedabad:20.12.2021

In a major breakthrough, Gandhinagar Police have arrested the three main conspirators behind the leaking of the head clerk examination paper. The Gujarat Subordinate Services Selection Board (GSSSB) exam was held on December 12. Gandhinagar cops arrested the three on Saturday.

The questioning of the three accused has revealed that the paper was leaked from a Sanand printing press which the board had contracted.

The accused have been identified as Deepak Patel, a resident of Hathijan in Dahegam; Mangesh Shirke, a resident of Nava Naroda; and Shirke’s relative, Kishor Acharya, a resident of Manipur in Sanand. “Gandhinagar Police were given the task by range IG Abhay Chudasama to nab the accused,” said Gandhinagar SP Mayur Chavda. “A team of the local crime branch officers in coordination with Sabarkantha Police began an investigation.” Chavda said cops have found that the main accused, Jayesh Patel, and Deepak Patel had been introduced by another accused named Deval Patel.

Jayesh had sold the question paper to three students: two in Prantij and one in Mehsana.

Deepak was an ambulance driver at a hospital where Deval was a nurse. Deepak contacted Shirke, who worked as the night manager at a private hospital in Mithakhali. Acharya, the uncle of Shirke wife, worked at the printing press in Sanand. Chavda said that Acharya, a printing press supervisor, obtained the paper and along with Shirke and Deepak sold it to Deval and Jayesh for Rs 9 lakh. Chavda added that cops have seized Rs 7 lakh from Shirke’s house. Chavda said that Jayesh took a token amount of Rs 1-2 lakh from a target candidate and retained the candidate’s original documents. If the candidate received the leaked paper, he or she had to pay Rs 10-12 lakh. The documents were returned only after the hefty amount was paid.