Shimla, May 8
Special Investigation team of Himachal Pradesh Police claimed today that four more accused had been arrested in state police recruitment exam question paper leak scam. Now the number of arrested has increased, increasing to 13. An FIR was registered on May 5 2022, as questions paper of state police leaked in Kangra district, forcing the recruiting agency State police to lodge a case in its police station at Gaggal under section
 420, 120-B IPC. After that, a SIT was constituted for the investigation of the case, which claimed on Sunday that its probe was being done scientifically and professionally.
Four more persons arrested today are Vishal (23) s/o Kanwarjeet r/o VPO Gharana Sub-Tehsil Dheera, District Kangra, Vijay Kishore(47) alias Arun s/o Ganga Dhar r/o VPO Hajipur Tehsil Mukerian District Hosiyarpur (PB) at present House No 408, Bharat Nagar, Pathankot, Vipin(37) s/o Jaswant Singh r/o Kailash Nagar Ward No. 01, PO Nakroh, Tehsil Ghanari, Una and Narinder Kumar s/o Chander Bhan(49) r/o Keshav Nagar Ibrahimpur, Delhi-36, Alternate address- A-59, Sarda Nagar, Haridwar, Uttarakhand.
Meanwhile state unit of CPI(M) demanded a judicial probe in the question paper leak case. Shimla district party secretary Sanjay Chauhan said that list of question papers leak is not ending for this state government. He said that during their tenure JBT, Patwari, University teacher, state police and state JOA questions papers have allegedly leaked. He said that Government couldn’t play with the career of students. He said that the recent police question paper leak has affected 74000 unemployed youth and erroded their faith on the free and fair examination. He said that the police did have a effective system to conduct the free and fair recuritment and therefore such examination should be conducted by the public service commissions.
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