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Kota police have arrested one of the accused, who had been on the run for two years in the alleged Delhi Police recruitment exam scam, a police official said.
The suspect was also wanted by the Kota police in another case related to forged documents.
Akhilesh Kumar Singh (32), a native of Bihar’s Jamui district and currently residing in Delhi’s Rohini, was arrested from Haryana’s Jind district on Saturday in connection with a forged documents case, Kota City SP Amrita Duhan said. Akhilesh is one of the accused in the Delhi Police recruitment exam scam, she added.
Akhilesh had rented the premises of Kota’s Messrs Om Kothari Foundation to conduct an online examination in 2020. The accused, along with a local person identified as Himanshu Rathore, allegedly forged the signature of an official of the institute to prepare the required property documents and got it allotted as an online examination centre for the Delhi Police recruitment exam, police said.
The scam came to light in 2022 and the Delhi Police Crime Branch filed a case.
During the investigation, it became clear that the computers of some candidates at the examination centre in Kota were connected online with those of the gang members in Delhi. They solved the entire exam there, the SP city said. The Delhi police had also arrested several people in connection with the alleged fraud.
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First publication: 08 Sep 2024 | 16:51 IST