LUCKNOW: The UP Teachers Eligibility Test (UPTET) scheduled to be held
on Sunday was cancelled after a question paper for the examination was
leaked. UP basic education minister Satish Dwivedi said the examination
was cancelled in both the shifts after information about the leak. "The
examination would be held again within a month without charging any fee
from the aspirants," he said.
ADG (law and order) Prashant Kumar
said that acting on specific tip-off, units of STF in different
districts of the state arrested as many 26 persons on Sunday morning. As
many as 16 accused were arrested from Prayagraj alone.
The STF
sources said that 11 of those arrested were solvers, one examinee, one
primary teacher and three kingpins of different gangs. Ten of them ran
an organised racket by promising to provide question papers to
candidates in different exams.
Four persons were arrested from
Lucknow district, and one each from Kaushambi, Ayodhya, and
Ambedkarnagar district. Besides, three persons were arrested from Shamli
district. These three had procured 10 copies of the question paper for
Rs 5 lakh, and had taken Rs 50,000 from 50-60 candidates each to give
them access to the papers for reading and memorising.
“The
development was shared with the government and the UP Basic Education
Board (UPBEB) following which a decision was taken to cancel the paper,”
said Kumar.
Kumar said that as many as 19.99 lakh students were to take the TET at 2,736 centres on Sunday in two shifts.
“During
probe it surfaced that the TET paper found in the possession of the
accused had matched completely with the one which was to be given to the
examinees in the first shift. There were multiple gangs active in six
districts in the state,” said ADG, STF, Amitabh Yash.
Yash also said
that the gangs were operating one two levels -- one was to take money
by providing candidates the paper and the other was arranging solvers
from Bihar who would sit in place of real candidates.
Yash said that
Rajendra Patel was one of the kingpins of one of the gangs who arranged
solvers from Bihar. His associate Sunny Singh of Bihar got arranged
solvers from Bihar.
While solvers Tinku Singh, Neeraj Shukla,
Sheetal Kumar, Dhananjay Kumar, Kunen Raja, Shiv Dayal were were all
arrested from Naini police station area, another solver Anurag Prasad,
an examinee Abhishek Singh, and Satya Prakash a primary teacher were
arrested from Jhunsi area.
The STF also said that another gang which
included Chaturbhuj Singh as kingpin, and solvers Ajay Kumar, Brahma
Singh, and Sunil Kumar were held from Georgetown area of the district.
Those
arrested from Lucknow are Anurag Desh, Fauzdar Verma, Kaushalendra
Pratap and Chandu Verma. The STF said cops recovered question papers
from their possession. Sources said that they contacted examinees and
gave them papers before the exam at the price of Rs 15,000.
Similarly,
Roshan Singh Patel, who worked as a lab technician was arrested from
Kaushambi district. Question paper was also recovered from his
possession. Likewise, Manish Malik, Ravi Kandla, and Dharmendra Pal were
arrested from Shamli.
STF said that gang members took Rs 50,000
each from examinees. One Sandeep Verma was arrested from Ayodhya while
Ramesh Gupta was nabbed in Ambedkarnagar. Question papers were found to
be in possession of both.
Leaders from the opposition parties
criticised the BJP government for the paper leak and accused it of
abetting corruption in the state.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh
Yadav said such incidents have become a norm under its rule.
“Cancellation of the UPTET examination due to the leak of the question
paper is like playing with the future of nearly 20 lakh aspirants. Paper
leaks, cancellation of the examination is common in the BJP
government,” he said in a tweet.
Congress general secretary Priyanka
Gandhi Vadra too alleged that corruption in education and recruitment
has become common under the BJP.
BSP chief Mayawati in a tweet in
Hindi criticised the BJP and also the previous SP government for such
incidents and asked for a high-level probe in the matter from the
current government.
The UP Basic Education Board (UPBEB) will
conduct the UPTET exam again after one month. The government will bear
the entire expenditure on the re-examination, said additional chief
secretary Basic Education department, Deepak Kumar. The exact date of
the UPTET exam will be notified in due course of time, the UP government
said.
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