Patna, (Bihar Times): In all 110 people, including 94 job aspirants, were arrested from Jaipur and Bhopal allegedly for leaking question papers of a Railway Recruitment Board examination scheduled for Sunday. Police sources from these two states said that the gang has its base in Bihar and majority of the aspirants arrested during the two operations also come from that state. Out of 94 arrested candidates 82 are from Bihar while all the 16 men involved in the gang are also from here, Some of them are former railway employees.

Only three months back another question paper racket was busted in Allahabad and about 175 people, some of them from Nalanda district of Bihar, were arrested.

Reports quoting Rajasthan ATS chief Kapil Garg said that the Railway Recruitment Board, Ajmer has postponed its scheduled examination for Assistant Station Master (ASM) and over 100 people including aspiring candidates have been detained from Jaipur.

On the other hand the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) STF of UP Amitabh Yash told a news agency in Lucknow that in a joint operation with Rajasthan Special Operations Group and Bhopal Police, 112 people have been arrested in connection with paper leak of the RRB examination. While 14 gang members and 93 aspirants were arrested from Jaipur, rest were arrested from Bhopal.
He said that information was being received that a well connected gang was active across the country in leaking question papers of examinations conducted by the RRB. The SSP said that acting on the information, raids were carried out by the STF in Jaipur and Bhopal with the help of the local police.

During a raid at a motel in Jaipur 14 members of a gang involved in the racket and 93 aspirants were arrested and question papers were recovered. Similarly in Bhopal four gang members, besides, aspirants were arrested.

Unlike in the past this time the gang adopted a unique modus operandi. Instead of providing question papers to the aspirants, they used to ask the aspirants to gather at one place on the eve of examination. There the aspirants were asked to learn the question paper. On the examination day, the aspirants were dropped at the centre. He said that the gang members included some former and current railway employees.

It is estimated that 75,000 candidates were scheduled to appear in the test to be held at five districts in Rajasthan including Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kota, Ajmer and Bikaner.

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