Uttarakhand Recruitment: 13 Exams Held Without Cheating After Strict Law; Over 100 Arrests In Past Paper Leak Cases

Following the enforcement of Uttarakhand’s stringent anti-cheating law, the Uttarakhand Subordinate Service Selection Commission (UKSSSC) has successfully conducted 13 recruitment examinations without controversy. However, the graduate-level examination held on September 21 recently came under scrutiny after a partial paper leak was reported.

The state government, under Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, had amended the anti-cheating law in February 2023, introducing harsher penalties and fines to curb paper leaks, cheating, and fraud in recruitment exams. Since then, 13 Group C examinations have been conducted for 3,086 posts, including Junior Assistant, Assistant Teacher, Excise Constable, and Police Constable, among others.

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Before the law came into effect, several examinations between 2021 and 2022 were cancelled following paper leak scandals. These included the Forest Inspector, Secretariat Guard, and Graduate-Level recruitment exams, which led to over 100 arrests by the STF.

The UKSSSC Chairman, GS Martolia, stated that the fresh graduate-level examination for 416 posts will be held within three months. Only candidates who appeared in the September 21, 2025, exam will be eligible to reappear; those absent previously will not be allowed to sit for the re-exam.

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The Dhami government’s strengthened anti-cheating measures have been credited with restoring trust in the recruitment process after widespread irregularities in earlier years.