The Special Investigation Team investigating the TSPSC question paper leakage arrested four persons on Tuesday: A.Saibabu and M.Shiva Kumar from Nagarkurnool district, R.Mahesh from Nagarjunasagar and P.Varun from Khammam district.
Police said they had purchased the question paper from the two Muralidhar Reddy from Hyderabad and Manoj from Warangal, who were arrested on Monday.Both Muralidhar Reddy and Manoj are middlemen.
Muralidhar Reddy and Manoj were allegedly paid Rs.10 lakh each to the main accused Pulidindi Praveen for question papers for the post of assistant engineer(AE) and sold it to seven others at 1.5 lakh apiece.
With this the number of persons arrested in the scam has reached 27 including TSSPSC employees, candidates who appeared for the entrance tests conducted by the TSPSC and mediators.
The latest arrests were made after SIT sifted through Praveen’s social media accounts.
He was reportedly proving to be a hard nut to crack and the investigators stumbled upon the leak of AEE question paper after a study of his social media accounts.
The SIT identified the candidates after TSPSC authorities evaluated the answer sheets of the exams which were already cancelled on suspicion of paper leak.
The authorities zeroed in on candidates who scored abnormally high marks.
During the last two months, SIT had found leak of question papers of Assistant Engineer (Civil), Divisional Accounts Officer (DAO) and Group-1 Prelims.
