TSPSC Question Paper Leak: Police Stop YSRTP Chief Sharmila From Leaving Home To Join Protest

TSPSC canceled Assistant Engineers exam on March 5 following allegations of the question paper leaking.

Police stopped Sharmila from leaving her residence to hold a protest at TSPSC office over alleged question paper leakage. ( Image Source :ANI )

Telangana Police stopped YSRTP chief Y S Sharmila from leaving her residence in Hyderabad on Friday to hold a protest at Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) office over alleged question paper leak. 

On Wednesday, TSPSC cancelled the Assistant Engineers (AE) exam held on March 5, following allegations of the question paper being leaked, even as protests by various student unions and youth wings of opposition parties continued for the second day.

#WATCH | Police stop YSRTP chief YS Sharmila from leaving her residence in Hyderabad to hold protest at Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) office over alleged paper leak pic.twitter.com/FFbZvzehag

— ANI (@ANI) March 17, 2023

Earlier, Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan ordered the Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) to provide a report regarding the recent leak of question papers during the Assistant Engineer recruitment exams for various departments. The governor also directed TSPSC to suggest measures to prevent such incidents from occurring in the future.

Meanwhile, state  IT minister K T Rama Rao demanded the state DGP to enquire about this matter thoroughly and bring perpetrators to justice.

Even by the very low standards of BJP, this is vulgarity at its worst

Just to malign Telangana Govt, BJP seems to have hatched a conspiracy to destroy the lives of innocent youth

I request the @TelanganaDGP Garu to enquire this matter thoroughly and bring perpetrators to… https://t.co/kZnCg0GRWH

— KTR (@KTRBRS) March 15, 2023

On Monday, Hyderabad police arrested nine people, including two TSPSC employees and a police constable, for their alleged involvement in the question paper leakage of the assistant engineer recruitment examination.The Commission will take a decision on the matter based on the report submitted by the police regarding their investigations into the incident.

The TSPSC conducted the exam on March 5 for 833 vacancies of assistant engineer, technical officer, municipal assistant engineer, and junior technical officer in various engineering departments. Approximately 55,000 candidates took the written exam.