Railway exam paper leak case:CBI conducts searches at 12 locations

CBI has conducted searches at around twelve locations in a case related to paper leakage of General Departmental Competitive Examination conducted by Railway Recruitment Centre.The raids were conducted at Surat, Amreli and Navsari in Gujarat, Mumbai in Maharashtra and Buxar in Bihar.A case was registered on a complaint from Western Railway, against certain officials of Railways and other unknown employees of a private company on the allegations of leaking question papers.It was alleged that some candidates were allegedly provided the paper through Whatsapp messages and few candidates were physically shown the question papers through mass gathering. 
It was alleged that the computer-based test for the post of Non-Technical Popular Categories (Non-Graduate) Jr Clerk Cum Typist and Trains Clerk against GDCE Quota, was held on January 1, 2021, in which a total of 8,603 candidates appeared in the 28 examination centres across six cities such as Ahmedabad, Indore, Rajkot, Surat, Vadodara and Mumbai.Some candidates were allegedly provided the paper through WhatsApp messages and few candidates were physically shown the question papers through mass gathering. It was also alleged that the said firm was appointed as the Examination Conducting Agency.It was further alleged that the candidates appearing in the GDC Examination were supplied with question papers along with answers prior to the commencement of the examination after payment of money. Moreover, after a few days of examination, they were also allegedly supplied examination results through an unverified WhatsApp link.