10 persons booked under the Corruption Act in question paper leak case
Ten persons were booked under the Prevention of Corruption Act in the leakage of questions papers case in the Himachal Pradesh Staff Selection Commission Hamirpur case.
The spokesperson of the State Vigilance and Anti-corruption Bureau said that FIR was registered today under sections 406,409,420,120B IPC & Section 12, 13 ( 1 ) ( a ) Prevention of Corruption Act ( as amended in 2018 ).
The case has been registered against ten accused persons, in Police Station State Vigilance & Anti Corruption Bureau Hamirpur.
The FIR hailed to leakage of the question paper of Junior Office Assistant ( IT ) Post Code 817, held in the month of March 2021.
The advertisement of 1756 seats for the said exam was published on 31.12.2020 and the written exam was held on dated 21.03. 2021.
The result of the written examination was dated 01.07.2021. A total of 107878 candidates had appeared in the written exam, and out of them 19024 candidates had passed the written exam.
Further 4342 candidates had been short-listed for document verification after typing skill test.
The result of this case is withheld as the matter lying pending before the apex court. The final result of this exam was yet to be declared.
