CBI busts Railway paper leak, arrests 9 officials with ₹1.17 Crore

New Delhi: Nine railway officials have been arrested and booked along with unknown candidates by the CBI 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. 

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.

source:sambadenglish.com