Paper leak case

NEW DELHI/ ITANAGAR, 4 Nov: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday carried out searches at 16 places in reference to the leak of query papers of the assistant engineer (civil) recruitment take a look at carried out by the Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) in August this yr, officers mentioned.

The searches have been unfold throughout Arunachal, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, throughout which incriminating proof, together with stamps of necessary functionaries corresponding to government Justice of the Peace and government engineer, have been seized, they added.

The APPSC had carried out the recruitment take a look at on 26 and 27 August.

Akhilesh Yadav, a instructor at a training centre, Jeju Institute, Itanagar, and unidentified officers of the fee have been booked within the FIR registered by the CBI on a reference from the state authorities.

The Arunachal Pradesh Police had registered an FIR on 10 September in opposition to Yadav and others within the matter.

The case was re-registered by the CBI in accordance with the laid down process.

2 granted bail

Meanwhile, two individuals – Akhilesh Yadav and Gumin Darung, a candidate whose identify had come up throughout the interrogation of intermediary Tama Saroh – have been granted bail.

Darung’s bail plea was made absolute by the court docket in Yupia on Friday. He had been in search of bail since October, dependable sources mentioned. He is at the moment beneath the safety of the Itanagar everlasting bench of the Gauhati High Court.

 The sources knowledgeable that the intermediary, Tama Saroh, had taken Rs 70 lakhs from Darung in lieu of guaranteeing that he would go the examination. Darung, nevertheless, denied any financial transaction having taken place between him and Saroh, saying that the Rs 70 lakhs got here from promoting land for his father’s medical remedy.

Gumin was interrogated by the CBI for about six days.

He was granted bail additionally as a result of his father is in a crucial situation on the NEIGRIHMS in Shillong, Meghalaya.

Two bail pleas, for Loth Ezing and his father, have been rejected on Thursday because the CBI couldn’t produce their case diary within the court docket.

On Wednesday, intermediary Jobomchang Mengu, who had been absconding, surrendered earlier than the particular decide and the CBI.

Currently, Mengu and 10 others are in judicial custody.

Reportedly, Mengu had given Rs 40 lakhs to the then APPSC undersecretary Taket Jerang for a candidate. The candidate’s identify has not been revealed but.

It is learnt that many of the transactions within the rip-off have been achieved in money. (With PTI enter)