STF, RRB officials differ on leakage of question papers

STF, RRB officials differ on leakage of question papers

Allahabad (ALD): Officials of the Special Task Force (STF) and Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) are at loggerheads over the alleged leakage of question papers of RRB. While chairman of the Railway Recruitment Board SK Mathur has denied any leakage of question papers, STF officials claimed that they have been probing the incident after ensuring arrest of two aspirants who had taken the key of answer sheet from the gang involved in question paper leakage.

Mathur, while talking said, “The arrested candidates were using a chit paper that had wrong sequence of answers.” He added that both the candidates – identified as Ramakant Yadav and Deepak Patel – were debarred from appearing further in any of the RRB examination. “We have received the chit paper that was used by the arrested candidate. However, the sequence of answers scribbled on the chit paper does not match with the sequence of answers of the original question papers. No one had the answer key,” he claimed.

RRB has multiple set of question papers that are distributed to the candidates and sequence of the answers in the chit paper did not match with any of the question paper that was distributed at the centre. Mathur, however, made it clear that it was a case of cheating only. He claimed that STF sleuths had alerted the RRB authorities over the involvement of about nine persons in cheating as a result of which a vigil was being maintained on the suspected nine persons — six in Lucknow and three at Allahabad.

However, only two persons were seized at Lucknow and chit paper was found from the arrested person, he claimed.

On the other hand, additional SP, STF, Triveni Singh, said, “Two special teams of STF have been looking for the key operators involved in leakage of the papers. The gang members used to lure aspirants and offer them answer keys of questions papers of different sets. The gang members asked the aspirants to submit their original marksheets before handing over answer keys and once their selection was made, the gang charged money from the aspirant and roll back their original mark sheets.”

Singh, however, said that they are on the look out for one Deepak Bharatiya, a resident of Jaunpur, who is the mastermind of the gang.

Source: RailNews