Monday, 25 July 2022 | PNS | Dehradun
The Uttarakhand police Special Task Force (STF) has arrested six men accused of being involved in the leak of the Uttarakhand Subordinate Service Selection Commission (UKSSSC) examination paper. Those arrested include an outsourced computer programmer who is accused of leaking the paper in return for Rs 60 lakh and a former employee of the UKSSSC among others. The police also recovered Rs 37.10 lakh from the accused.
Following the directions of chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami regarding irregularities in the graduate level examination organised by UKSSSC in December 2021, the director general of police, Ashok Kumar got a case registered and handed over the investigation to the STF. The accused nabbed by the STF include Almora district native Manoj Joshi of the PRD who had worked as a class IV employee in the commission’s Raipur office from 2014-15 to 2018. He was removed from the commission in 2018 due to a departmental complaint. Before that, he had also worked for 12 years at a printing press in Lucknow. Another accused, Dehradun resident Jaijeet Das was working as a computer programmer since 2015 through outsourcing company RMS Technosolutions India Private Limited. The company used to undertake the confidential works of the commission due to which Das came to know Joshi. Another Manoj Joshi- a native of Champawat district also used to visit the commission for information regarding the examination programme due to which he met Joshi working in the commission. The Champawat native Joshi was undergoing coaching at another accused- Kulveer Singh Chauhan’s Delta Defence Coaching Institute at Karnpur area in Dehradun. Kulveer had introduced Manoj Joshi to Kalsi native Shurveer Singh Chauhan. They also came to know Gaurav Negi who was working at a private school in Kichha. Together along with Almora native Manoj Joshi, they gave Rs 60 lakh for Jaijeet Das to leak the examination paper. Das used to extract the examination questions due to involvement in paper setting and other technical works at UKSSSC and communicate these to the other accused. On information provided by Das to the STF, the team recovered Rs 37.10 lakh cash.
