Monday, 11 March 2024 | PNS | DEHRADUN
The Uttarakhand Special Task Force (STF) arrested the 47th accused in the Uttarakhand Subordinate Services Selection Commission (UKSSSC) graduate level recruitment examination leak case from Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh. The accused identified as Kasan Khan is the 62nd accused arrested in UKSSSC recruitment examination scam cases. The STF had also announced a reward of Rs 50,000 for his arrest, the STF superintendent of police Chandra Mohan Singh said on Sunday. Khan’s name was among 49 accused who were allegedly involved in the graduate level recruitment examination scam in 2021. The STF teams had conducted raids at all the possible places in nearby states where Khan could hide in the past one year. Since the teams were not succeeding, the STF senior superintendent of police Ayush Agrawal directed to manually gather information about Khan’s friends and relatives to make a concrete plan for his arrest. Following this, the STF received information about Khan hiding in Aligarh a week ago. The STF team reached there and looked for him at his possible hiding places day and night in the past seven days and finally nabbed him from Aligarh’s Jamalpur area late on Saturday. The team brought him to Dehradun for interrogation. Singh said that Khan used to work in the RMS Techno Solutions Private Limited that managed the printing of UKSSSC’s examination papers. He was involved in works related to packing question papers, numeric typing and printing machines since 2018. Khan stated during interrogation that Rupendra Jaiswal and Sadiq Musha, who also worked in RMS, allegedly approached him to give them the said papers for about Rs five lakhs. He hid the papers under his clothes and brought them outside to give them to Jaiswal and Musha. When the authorities started making arrests in the matter, he left his house and started staying in various cities like Agra, Delhi, Aligarh and Ajmer by changing his disguise. The teams are investigating the case. The SP said that UKSSSC had registered four separate cases regarding rigging in the graduate level recruitment examination 2021, secretariat guard recruitment examination, forest inspector online recruitment examination and village Panchayat development officer selection examination 2016. The STF has been thoroughly investigating all the cases and has filed chargesheets in the court too. He said that the STF is continuously making efforts to arrest all culprits involved in these scams with strong evidence to ensure strict legal action against them.
