• Source:Jagran News Network

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a supplementary prosecution complaint (supplementary chargesheet) in the Special CBI Court against 18 accused in the paper leak case related to the recruitment of police constables, review officers, and assistant review officers in UP. 

In the chargesheet, filed under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), the ED has identified Rajiv Nayan Mishra as the mastermind of the paper leak case. The Special Task Force (STF) registered a case under various sections at the Kankar Khera police station in Meerut on March 6, 2024, regarding the paper leak for the Police Constable Recruitment Exam-2023 and the RO and ARO Recruitment Exam-2023. 

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The ED began its investigation based on this FIR. FIRs registered at other police stations were also used as a basis for the investigation. The investigation revealed that the papers for the constable, RO, and ARO recruitment exams were leaked as part of a criminal conspiracy. 

The accused made candidates memorise the answers before the exams, which were held on February 11, 17, and 18, 2024. Before this, the accused had earned Rs 1.02 crore by selling the RO and ARO recruitment exam papers to candidates. The ED has seized assets of the accused worth Rs 1.02 crore in connection with this. 

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The ED has already arrested seven accused in this case. In the chargesheet filed on Wednesday, the ED has named mastermind Rajiv, in addition to Ankit Shekhar, Shubham Mandal, Manish Sharma alias Monu, Bittu Singh Bahadur, Shyamveer Singh, Gaurav Kumar, Sunil Raghuvanshi, Vishal Dubey, Vivek Upadhyay, Amarjeet Sharma, Kameshwar Nath, Amit Singh, Sharad Singh, Arun Singh, Naveen Singh, Puneet Singh, and Ayush Pandey as accused.


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