Itanagar, Jan 21: After request from the Arunachal Pradesh government, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case against several persons in connection with the Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) question paper leak case on Friday.
The CBI has taken over the probe from SIC, Vigilance, police station Itanagar.
The allegations include leakage of question papers of both preliminary and mains and selection of undeserving candidates in APPSCCE 2017 conducted by the commission on July 29, 2018, and November 10, 2018, and other offences committed in the course of or in relation to the same transaction or arising out of the same facts.
“Searches were conducted at nine different places including at Siang, East Siang, Upper Siang, Itanagar, Naharlagun etc districts (all in Arunachal Pradesh) which led to the recovery of several incriminating documents/articles, handwritten questions in APTET-2016, copy of Agreement, copy of Sale Agreement etc,” an official said.
The scam has created lot of uproar in Arunachal Pradesh since its discovery.
In September last year, the state government decided to hand over investigation of the case to the CBI “for free, fair, impartial and Swift investigation”.
After the question paper leak cropped up, Chairman of Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) Nipo Nabam resigned from his post on moral grounds owing responsibility for the leak.
