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Nexus of Army recruitment paper leak is widespread
PUNE The nexus of the people selling the question paper for the common entrance exam for Indian Army relation recruitment is wider than it appears with more arrests in the case
PUNE The nexus of the people selling the question paper for the common entrance exam for Indian Army relation recruitment is wider than it appears with more arrests in the case.
With the arrest of two major-rank officers, who are suspected to be the primary source for the distribution of the leaked question papers, the police are now investigating where the two got the paper from.
Two separate cases have been registered by Pune police based on the information provided by the Military Intelligence (MI). So far, a total of ten persons including two majors have been arrested in cases lodged at Wanowrie and Vishrantwadi police stations
The ones arrested in the case registered at Wanowrie police station have been identified as Major Vasant Kilari (45), Major Thiru Murugan Thangavelu (47) who was arrested from Tamil Nadu and Kishore Mahadev Giri (40), Malegaon in Baramati; Madhav Sheshrao Gitte (38) a resident of Sappers Vihar colony in Pune; another accused called Bharat Lakshman Adakmol (37) from Pachora, Pune; Gopal Yuvraj Koli (31) a resident of BEG Center in Dighi; and Uday Dattu Auti (23) a resident of BEG Khadki.
Koli works as a physical trainer at Training Battalion-2 and Auti works in the Regimental Police.
The ones arrested in the case registered at Vishrantwadi have been identified as Ali Akhtar Khan (47), Azad Lalmohammed Khan (37) and Mahendra Chandrabhan (37).
Among the ones arrested so far, Major Kilari was set to be the largest benefactor and was supposed to get paid money to the tune of ₹25,00,000, according to assistant commissioner of police (ACP) Laxman Borate of the anti-extortion cell of the Pune police crime branch.
“He denies that he was supposed to get paid, but the other accused agree that the money was to be sent to him,” said ACP Borate.
According to a police officer close to the investigation, Major Kilari allegedly sent the paper to Major Thangavelu who then sent it to Adakmol who is a retired Hawaldar from the Indian Army. Adakmol is then alleged to have sent the paper to two groups - one led by Giri from Baramati and one including the two serving Hawaldars from Pune.
Along with the students from Giri and from the two serving Hawaldars, Adakmol had offered ₹25,00,000 to Major Thangavelu, according to the police.
“The ones who provided the paper (close to the leak) took the money in one go. The coaching centre management gets the money from the aspirants who make it through the exams. These coaching centre owners are generally ex-servicemen,” said ACP Borate.
The police are investigating multiple links between the serving and the retired servicemen who are on the radar and will be arrested during the investigation.
