Gandhinagar, Dec 17 : The Gujarat government on Friday admitted that question papers for the government head clerk recruitment exam held on December 12 were leaked.
Minister of State (MoS) for Home, Harsh Sanghvi, said that an FIR has been registered in Sabarkantha district in north Gujarat and the police have arrested six suspects out of 10 persons supposedly involved in the paper leak.
Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Gujarat youth wing president Yuvrajsinh Jadeja had on Tuesday alleged that question papers were leaked from Sabarkantha district and had even shared photographs supporting the allegations.
Initially, the government had denied the allegations, but following public outcry, it ordered a probe.
“Following reports in press and social media and based on our inquiry, we have registered an FIR at Prantij police station in Sabarkantha district against 10 persons, six of whom have been arrested,” Sanghvi told reporters in Gandhinagar.
The six arrested persons are Mahesh K.Patel from Ahmedabad, Chintan P Patel from Prantij, and Dhruv B.Barot, Darsh K Vyas, Suresh Patel and Kuldip N Patel, all from Sabarkantha.But the kingpins of this scam are believed to be Jayesh Patel, Mahendra Patel, Satish Patel and Jaswant Patel, who are yet to be nabbed.
The scam unearthed by the AAP leader has shaken the spirit of 88,000 candidates who appeared for the recruitment examination for 186 posts.The big question now is the status of the exams.
“The decision on whether to hold fresh exams will be taken by the Gujarat Subordinate Service Selection Board (GSSB).As of now, the focus is on solving the case,” Sanghavi added.Till Friday, Gujarat Secondary Service Selection Board (GSSSB) chairperson Asit Vora had been repeatedly denying the paper leak.He constantly maintained that the exams held in Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Rajkot, Surat and Jamnagar districts were ‘completely’ transparent and the board did not receive any complaint.”We appreciate the action by Sanghavi and the police, but we still don’t trust Asit Vora.Earlier also, Vora was entrusted with probe into exam paper leak scams, but nothing happened.Despite providing him with all the necessary evidence and submitting our complaint to him, he told the media that he has not received a single complaint.We think that a probe should be initiated against him as a suspect,” AAP leader Jadeja told reporters on Friday.”We are asking the Gujarat government to at least remove him from the probe if not from his position.We have more proofs and will provide more, but we don’t trust the GSSSB.We want to provide evidence only to Sanghavi and no one else.
We are also demanding an SIT to be formed to find out the truth behind this paper leak,” added Jadeja.amc/svn/arm
Finally, Gujarat admits recruitment exam paper leak, six held
The Gujarat Subordinate Service Selection Board will decide whether or not to conduct new exams.
Sanghavi said that the main focus now is to solve the case. Asit Vora, chairperson of Gujarat Secondary Service Selection Board (GSSSB), denied the paper leakage until Friday.
Asit Vora maintained incessantly that all exams conducted in Gujarat, Ahmedabad and Surat, Rajkot and Surat districts were transparent.The board received no complaints.
We appreciate Sanghavi’s actions, but still doubt Asit Vora.Vora had been given the task of investigating exam paper scams earlier, but nothing was done.He claimed that even though he had all of the evidence, and submitted our complaint to him for investigation into exam paper leak scams, no complaint was received.”We believe that an investigation should be launched against him as suspect,” Jadeja, AAP leader, told reporters Friday.
We are asking for the Gujarat government’s cooperation to remove him at the very least from this probe.Although we have additional evidence and can provide them more, the GSSSB is not trustworthy.
Sanghavi is the only one we want to see.Jadeja added that we are also calling for an SIT be set up to investigate the paper leak.
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