So far, 15 accused, including four TSPSC employees, have been arrested by the Hyderabad City Police’s SIT.
The TSPSC paper leak and lack of recruitment were key fighting points for the Congress during the Assembly elections. (Creative Commons)
The Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) on Wednesday, 29 March, announced fresh dates for the Assistant Executive Engineer (AE) exam at the heart of the question paper leak case.
As many as 15 accused, including four TSPSC employees, a school teacher and a cop have been arrested so far by the Hyderabad City Police’s Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the case.
Meanwhile, the SIT on Wednesday began three days of questioning of three more accused after winding up four days interrogation of four key accused persons.
The three-day Assistant Executive Engineer exam has been scheduled for 8, 9 and 21 May.
While the Electrical and Electronics Engineering exam will be held on 8 May, Agriculture Engineering is scheduled for the next day, 9 May. Both exams will happen in online mode.
On 21 May, the Civil Engineering exam will be conducted on Optical Mark Recognition, or OMR, sheets. In September last year, the TSPSC announced recruitment to 837 vacancies.
Meanwhile, the TSPSC AE exam was earlier scheduled on 5 March before the commission cancelled it following the paper leak.
A local court on 28 March granted five days of custody of three accused — two TSPSC employees D Ramesh Kumar and Shameem, and former outsourced employee Suresh.
All of them scored above 100 marks in the Group-1 prelims and qualified for the mains exam.
“Among other things, we are trying to establish how many people were aware or involved in this paper leak,” Additional Commissioner of Police (Crimes and SIT) AR Srinivas, who is heading the investigation, had earlier told South First.
While the initial custody was for six days, this was the second time the court allowed police custody of these accused.
Simultaneously, the SIT is also questioning all the 121 candidates who not only cleared the exam but scored over 100 marks.
Three of the 15 accused arrested, who were also TSPSC employees, are among the candidates who scored over 100 marks.
Meanwhile, Telangana High Court on 21 March directed the SIT to submit a status report within three weeks.
Telangana IT Minister KT Rama Rao on Tuesday, 28 March, issued legal notices to BJP state president Bandi Sanjay Kumar and TPCC president A Revanth Reddy for their comments over the TSPSC question paper leak issue.
The BRS leader said he would sue them for ₹100 crore under Section 500 of the IPC for making statements through media channels that damaged his reputation.
The minister asked the the Bandi Sanjay to apologise to him through the same channels, which he used to malign the BRS leader’s image.
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