Hyderabad: The Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) has scheduled an emergency meeting for Tuesday to discuss the possibility of cancelling the recruitment examination for the posts of Assistant Engineers in various departments due to a question paper leak.
Recently, the Hyderabad Police arrested nine individuals, including two TSPSC employees and a police constable, in connection with the exam paper leak case. The Commission will take a decision on the matter based on the report submitted by the police regarding their investigations into the incident.
On March 5, the TSPSC conducted an examination for the recruitment of Assistant Engineer, Municipal Assistant Engineer, Technical Officer, and Junior Technical Officer in various engineering departments. A total of 55,000 candidates had appeared for the exam, which was held to fill 833 vacancies in these positions.
As the two employees TSPSC allegedly copied folders containing question papers of various exams from computers in the confidential section, the Commission already postponed the recruitment examinations to the posts of Town Planning Building Overseer scheduled on March 12 and Veterinary Assistant Surgeon scheduled to be held on March 15 and 16.
Meanwhile, TSPSC has suspended P. Praveen Kumar, who was working as Assistant Section Officer (ASO) with immediate effect, pending further departmental enquiry and disciplinary action.
The Commission has also terminated the services of another accused Rajasekhar Reddy, a network expert working on outsourcing basis.
According to police, Praveen and Rajasekhar accessed the system of confidential section officer Shankar Lakshmi. They copied folders containing question papers in four pen drives and shared the papers for the post of assistant engineer (civil) with some aspirants.
Those arrested include a former teacher L. Renuka, who had struck a deal with Praveen for Rs 10 lakh to help her brother Rajeshwar Naik. who was appearing for the exam. Renuka's husband Dakiya Naik and four others were also arrested.
Renuka and her husband had paid Rs 5 lakh to Praveen on March 2 and another Rs 5 lakh on March 6.
The accused had also sold question papers for Rs 13.50 lakh to two other aspirants, who were allegedly referred by a police constable.
Police were investigating if the accused had leaked question papers of the exams held for recruitments in the past.
"We have sent the computers and hard disks seized from the accused to a forensic laboratory for analysis," Kiran Khare, Deputy Commissioner of Police (South West) told news agency IANS.
(Inputs From IANS)
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