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Pune police arrest another major-rank official in army recruitment paper leak case
So far, a total of 10 people have been arrested in cases lodged at Wanowrie and Vishrantwadi police stations
The city police have arrested another major rank official of the Indian Army in the Army recruitment paper leak case on Tuesday.
So far, a total of 10 people have been arrested in cases lodged at Wanowrie and Vishrantwadi police stations.
A team of Pune police crime branch arrested the major in Delhi and brought him to Pune. He will be produced before the Pune district court on Wednesday.
According to police, about 30,000 candidates were to appear for the common entrance exam at 40 centres across India on February 28. However, the exam was cancelled as the paper leak was detected by Military Intelligence (MI) sleuths and the Pune police arrested four accused a few hours before the exam was scheduled to take place.
The accused had received handwritten question paper and answer sheet which matched a 100 per cent with the real paper and were charging ₹4-5 lakh from each candidate for sharing the leaked question paper.
On Monday, a special court remanded arrested major Thiru Murugan to police custody until March 15. He was caught in Wellington, Tamil Nadu, and then brought to Pune. The second major rank officer who was arrested in Delhi is also from Murugan’s batch.
Meanwhile, the police custody of Bharath and Koli, the defence personnel has been increased by court until March 14 and 15 respectively.
