New Delhi: Crime Branch Department of India on Tuesday arrested nine railway officials and booked along with unknown candidates over a Departmental Examination Paper Leak Scam under the East Central Railway at Mughal Sarai on the eve of the exam scheduled for Tuesday, an official said.
Official sources said that overall 26 Railway officials have been arrested in this case so far, he said, adding that investigators also seized Rs 1.17 crore reportedly collected from the candidates for leaking the question papers.
East Central Railway had scheduled a Departmental Examination on Tuesday for the posts of Chief Loco Inspectors.
During checks conducted by the CBI at three spots past midnight on March 3 at Mughal Sarai, a total of 17 candidates were found with photocopies of hand-written question papers, the official said.
Those booked by the federal probe agency include a Senior Divisional Electrical Engineer (Ops) Sushant Prashar and Senior DEE Indu Prakash, said an official.
Investigation revealed that the accused Sr. DEE (Ops) was given the responsibility for setting and preparing the question paper for the said examination. He in his own handwriting had written the questions in English and allegedly gave it to one Loco Pilot who in turn translated it into Hindi and further gave it to an OS (Trg.).
The CBI said the OS (Trg.) allegedly gave it to the candidates through a few other railway employees.
The CBI has arrested the accused Sr. DEE (Ops) and other Railway employees on allegations of indulging in the collection of money and distribution of question papers.
The hand-written question papers along with their photocopies were seized and these question papers were tallied with the original/actual question paper and were found to have matched.