Owner of Panipat School among 14 people arrested in paper leak case

Mukesh Tandon
Tribune News Service
Panipat, January 11

Panipat Police said they arrested 14 people—the owner of a school and his son among them—on charges of leaking answer keys to a test for recruiting Panchayat secretaries.

Panipat Superintendent of Police Shashank Kumar Sawan said that eight of the 14 were arrested from Rohtak, four from Panipat and two from Sonepat. Sawan claimed police had been tipped off about a gang that was involved in leaking the answer key in several districts.

He said that police made the bust and arrested suspects from Paradise School on Hathwala road in Samalkha when suspects were still electronically distributing the answer key on January 9.

Paradise School was an exam centre.

The suspects have been identified as Rahul from Garhi Kesari village in Sonepat’s Ganaur, Jagdeep and his son Anuj from Garhi Kewal and who own the school, and Rajesh from Panipat’s Sewah village.

A second team arrested eight people—Pushpender and Vishwajeet from Rohtak’s Pakasma; Anuj from Rohtak’s Shivaji Colony; Sanjeet, Aman, Sunil alias Shilu and Ankit from Baliyana; Deepak from Kasrehti village in Karnal; Devender from Sonepat’s Atail village; and Vaibhav from Panipat’s Kishanpura.

A suspect, Rahul, is believed to have told police that the owners of Paradise school had called him and some other people to provide answers to the test and enlisted another suspect, Rajesh, to distribute the answer key at examination centres.

Sawan said that the owners of the school had promised Rahul and some others short-term Class 4 positions in his school in return. Police also suspect that there may be others involved in the case.