Six individuals, together with an MPSC undersecretary and two assistant part officers, have been arrested on Wednesday in reference to the alleged leak of the query paper for the Maharashtra Public Service Commission’s (MPSC) drug inspector (Group B) examination held in March, police mentioned.
These arrested are MPSC undersecretary Abhijit Lendave, 38; assistant part officers Gopal Marathe, 37, and Vishweshwar Nakate, 35; Kautalya Teaching Lessons director Pravin Patil, 40; schoolteacher Amrut Namdeo Patil, 55; and Gaurav Patil, 24, a pharma firm worker from Malegaon.
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The case got here to mild after the MPSC obtained an electronic mail on July 22 alleging that the March 22 query paper had been leaked. The e-mail was despatched by Gaurav, whose girlfriend Rutuja Patil had allegedly benefited from the leaked paper.
“We submitted a preliminary report and on Wednesday registered a case within the matter,” mentioned deputy commissioner of police Raj Tilak Roshan.
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Police mentioned Rutuja’s father, Amrut, allegedly paid ₹5 lakh to teaching class director Pravin Patil for the leaked query set. The paper was allegedly procured by Nakate from the MPSC workplace and handed to Lendave, who gave it to Marathe. Marathe then handed it to Pravin, who gave it to Amrut on March 20, two days earlier than the examination.
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Police mentioned 77 questions from the leaked set overlapped with the 294 questions within the examination paper. Rutuja cleared the examination and the ultimate outcomes, declared on July 22, noticed 488 candidates qualify.
Police mentioned Rutuja had enrolled at Kautalya Teaching Lessons after responding to an commercial for the drug inspector publish.
The teaching institute had allegedly informed college students that it might acquire entry to the examination paper.
Police mentioned Rutuja later shared the leaked questions with Gaurav, whose brother had appeared for the examination. She subsequently averted him and ended their relationship after her household refused to approve their marriage.
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Infuriated, Gaurav emailed the MPSC concerning the leak, triggering the investigation. Police mentioned he later tried to withdraw the grievance however investigators had already begun probing the matter.
The MPSC has cancelled the choice course of and can conduct a re-examination.
“We have now registered a case on the Cuffe-Parade police station underneath sections 112 (petty organised crime), 316 (felony breach of belief), 318 (dishonest), 238 (inflicting disappearance of proof of offence), 317 (stolen property), 303 (theft) and 61 (felony conspiracy) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, and varied sections of the Maharashtra Aggressive Examination (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024,” the police officer mentioned.
NCP chief Rohit Pawar had earlier alleged that the paper was bought for round ₹12 lakh at Kautalya Lessons in Nandurbar, with ₹5 lakh paid prematurely.
