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TSPSC paper leak: 15 who scored over 100 in Group-1 prelims questioned

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Hyderabad: 15 candidates, who scored above 100 marks in the Telangana State Public Service Commission’s (TSPSC) Group 1 preliminary exam were questioned by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Sunday, suspecting them of having access to the leaked papers.
Police officials called the suspects on the mobile numbers submitted by the candidate during the one-time registration (OTR) of TSPSC.
However, no arrests were made on Sunday, confirmed officials.
While speaking to the media, a Group I candidate said, “We were asked to fill out a form with details of our date of birth, occupation, TSPSC one-time registration number and academic credentials.”
“They are checking our background and banking transactions,” the student said after interrogation by the SIT officials.
When asked if he had genuinely scored above 100 marks, he said that it is achievable for those who have prepared for UPSC (civil services) recruitment.
An elderly person, the father of another applicant, revealed that the SIT questioned his son about whether he had any information regarding the leakage before it came to light. He added that his son had estimated a score of 95 marks based on the answer key, but ultimately scored 101 as per the final results.
TSPSC had cancelled the Group 1 preliminary examination after confirming that the question paper was leaked by its staff.

13 persons, including four government employees, in connection with the case, have already been arrested by the police.
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March 27, 2023
TSPSC paper leak: Hyderabad police foils ABVP protest at Osmania univ

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Hyderabad: Tension prevails in Osmania University campus after police foiled the rally of Akhila Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) a student organization affiliated to the Bhartiya Janata Party from taking out a rally on Saturday.
Hundreds of students of the ABVP took out rallies to protest against the TSPSC paper leak case demanding the suspension of Dr. B Janardhan Reddy, chairman Telangana State Public Service Commissioner (TSPSC), an enquiry by a sitting judge of Telangana High Court into the alleged paper leak case.
The police had closed all the gates of the Osmania University campus to thwart attempts by ABVP activists. Several activists jumped over the gates to head towards Dharna Chowk where Bhartiya Janata Party leaders are holding a mass dharna on the paper leak case issue.
The police rounded up ABVP leaders and physically bundled them into police vehicles. The activists sat in front of the buses demanding the release of their leaders.
The roads on the campus are closed for general traffic and heavy police force is deployed at Nallakunta, Adikmet, O U police station, Tarnaka, and Vidyanagar.
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March 25, 2023
TSPSC paper leakage case: SIT summons Bandi Sanjay for second time

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Hyderabad: The sleuths of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) investigating the TSPSC paper leakage case on Saturday served fresh notice to Telangana State BJP Chief Bandi Sanjay at his Banjara Hills residence.
Although SIT served notice to him seeking his appearance on March 24 before the investigating agency, Bandi Sanjay feigned ignorance and denied receiving any notice.
The SIT took cognizance of Sanjay’s statement alleging that several leaders of the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) are involved in the TSPSC exam paper leak that took place over a week ago. He said after obtaining question papers for the TSPSC exams, relatives of chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao (KCR) managed to get government posts.
In the fresh notice which has been served under CRPC section 91, the SIT has sought Bandi Sanjay’s appearance on March 26 at Himayat Nagar office.
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March 25, 2023
Telangana: BJP to stage protest against TSPSC paper leak issue in Hyderabad

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Hyderabad: Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will stage a protest against the Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) paper leak issue in Hyderabad on Saturday.
The protest will be held at Indira Park in Hyderabad.
The Telangana High Court on Friday granted permission for 500 people to stage the dharna.
Speaking to ANI, BJP spokesperson NV Subhash said, “The BJP is always with the people and we always raise our voice for the people. We have been constantly raising voices for 8 years that there are so many shortfalls and gaps in the job notifications. There are 30 lakh aspirants who have been preparing for government jobs.”
Unfortunately, the K Chandrashekar Rao government deliberately delayed job notifications because there were no funds in the government departments, the BJP leader said.
He said, “In order to support the 30 lakh job aspirants who are in the doldrums as TSPSC has deliberately leaked the paper, we are staging a dharna. They have been preparing for competitive exams for almost 3-4 years. They are looking forward to getting into government jobs but due to this paper leak, the exams are postponed for four months. In order to support the unemployed youth, the BJP wanted to hold a dharna.”
But the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) government as usual, Subhash said did not want the opposition parties to come into the light and support the people.
“We have gone to the High Court and the Court has given us permission from 10 am to 5 pm on Saturday for around 500 people. As law-abiding citizens, we will honour and respect the court verdict. A peaceful dharna will be organized where all the state leaders will be coming,” he said.

On Thursday, Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan sought a status report of the alleged TSPSC paper leak case from the top officials of the state.
As per Governor’s instructions, Raj Bhavan wrote to the Telangana Chief Secretary, the TSPSC Secretary and the Director General of Police seeking the latest status of the case within 48 hours.
In the letter, it was asked to furnish a status report on the alleged paper leak case including Special Investigation Team’s investigation status.
The TSPSC was also asked to furnish the details of its regular and outsourcing employees who appeared for examinations with or without permission from the Commission and their performance in the exams and preparatory leave etc.
The Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) on March 15 cancelled the Assistant Engineers (AE) exam held on March 5, following allegations of the question paper leak.
On March 13, police arrested nine people, including two employees of the TSPSC. Following the arrest of the accused, the Commission cancelled the exam and also postponed other exams scheduled to be held later this month.
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March 25, 2023
TSPSC paper leak: Telangana Governor seeks status report

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Hyderabad: Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan on Thursday sought the latest status report, within 48 hours, on the Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) question paper leak case.
On the Governor’s instructions, the Raj Bhavan wrote to the Chief Secretary, the TSPSC and the Director General of Police (DGP) seeking the latest status within 48 hours.
In the letter, it was asked for intimating status report as at present on the alleged leakage including Special Investigation Team’s investigation status, the Raj Bhavan said.
The TSPSC was also asked to furnish the details of its regular and outsourcing employees who appeared for examinations with or without permission from the Commission and their performance in the exams and preparatory leave etc, apart from the present status of the case.
This came a day after the opposition Congress urged the Governor to exercise her special powers to take action in the case.
A delegation of state Congress leaders led by its state chief A. Revanth Reddy had urged her to dissolve the TSPSC until the investigation in the case is completed.
Revanth Reddy had stated that under Article 317 of the Constitution, the Governor has the powers to suspend those in TSPSC who are involved in the paper leak. “Only then can the probe into the case be transparent,” he said.
He said the Governor told the delegation that she will look into the issue and take necessary action after seeking legal opinion.

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March 23, 2023
Three more arrested in TSPSC paper leak case

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Hyderabad: The Special Investigation Team (SIT ) of Telangana police have arrested three more persons, including a woman, in connection with the leakage of question papers of various exams conducted by the Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC).
Two of them D. Ramesh Kumar and Shameem are employees of TSPSC. The police have also booked former outsourcing employee Suresh.
The trio had allegedly scored over 100 marks in Group-I Prelims held in October last year after procuring question papers from the main accused Praveen Kumar and Rajasekhar Reddy, both employees of TSPSC.
With this the number of the accused rose to 12. Earlier, nine accused were arrested and they include two employees of TSPSC.
The SIT hopes to get vital information from the accused about the case. They are likely to be produced before a court on Thursday.
TSPSC is said to be questioning another female employee of TSPSC in connection with the paper leak.
Meanwhile, police custody of the nine accused arrested earlier is ending Thursday. They will also be Aproduced in the court.
The SIT is likely to file a petition for further custody of the accused. It is looking to extract more information from the accused about the network.

During the investigations so far, SIT found that out of 20 employees of TSPSC who had appeared for Group-I Prelims, eight had qualified for Group-1 mains.
There have been allegations that several employees of TSPSC appeared in Group-I prelims conducted in October last year. The Commission last week cancelled Group-I Prelims and three other exams after the paper leak case came to the fore.
Nearly 2.86 lakh aspirants of Group I posts had appeared in Group-I exam conducted on October 16, 2022. Of them, 121 candidates had scored more than 100 marks. The SIT plans to question all these candidates.
The TSPSC had conducted an examination on March 5 for 833 vacancies of Assistant Engineer, Municipal Assistant Engineer, Technical Officer, and Junior Technical Officer in various engineering departments. A total of 55,000 candidates had written the exam.
However, the Commission suspected leakage of the question paper and lodged a complaint with the police.
The police on March 13 arrested nine persons including two TSPSC employees.
According to police, Rajasekhar, who worked as a network administrator in TSPSC, had copied question papers of some exams from a computer in the confidential section of the Commission and passed on the same to Praveen Kumar, who sold the papers to some aspirants.
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March 23, 2023
TSPSC paper leak: SIT serves notice to Cong leader over allegations

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Hyderabad: Telangana Police’s Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the question paper leak in TSPSC has issued a notice to state Congress chief A. Revanth Reddy, asking him to share whatever information he has about the case.
The SIT, which has stepped up the probe with the questioning of nine accused, is also issuing notices to those making allegations relating to the case.
Revanth Reddy, however, said he has not yet received the SIT notice. He said he was not afraid of SIT notice and would share whatever evidence he has if a judicial probe is ordered in the case.
The development came a day after Revanth Reddy made a serious allegation that state minister K.T. Rama Rao’s personal assistant was also involved in the paper leak.
The Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president had said on Sunday that KTR’s personal assistant (PA) Tirupati and one of the key accused in the case, Rajasekhara Reddy, were friends.
He also claimed that Tirupati helped Rajasekhar Reddy get a job in the Telangana State Technological Services (TSTS) on outsourcing basis and later ensured he lands a job in Telangana State Public Service Commission �(TSPSC) in a key role.
Rajasekhar Reddy is one of the two employees of TSPSC who have been arrested by the police for question paper leak. Rajasekhar Reddy, a network expert, allegedly copied question papers of several exams from confidential systems in the Commission and gave the same to Praveen Kumar, who then shared it with some aspirants for money.
During a protest in Kamareddy district on Sunday, the Congress leader had also claimed that Tirupati and Rajasekhar are friends hailing from neighbouring villages in Malyala mandal of Jagtiyal district and that 100 people belonging to Malyal mandal secured more than 100 marks in Group-1 Prelims. He had demanded that TSPSC should reveal names of 100 people who scored more than 100 marks.

The TPCC chief had also alleged irregularities in 2016 Group-1 results. He said that Madhur, the topper of that exam, came straight from the US to write the exam and secured the first rank. Rajinikanth Reddy, a TSPSC employee, secured fourth rank in that exam.
Revanth Reddy demanded a probe by a sitting judge of the High Court saying a thorough probe was needed to find out from which year the question paper leak was going on.
The TSPSC had conducted the examination on March 5 for 833 vacancies of Assistant Engineer, Municipal Assistant Engineer, Technical Officer, and Junior Technical Officer in various engineering departments. A total of 55,000 candidates had written the exam.
However, the Commission suspected leakage of the question paper and lodged a complaint with the police.
On March 13, police arrested nine people, including two employees of the TSPSC.
Following the arrest of the accused, the Commission cancelled the exam and also postponed other exams scheduled to be held later this month.
Amid doubts that the accused may have leaked question papers of some other exams, the Commission on Friday decided to cancel three other exams, including Group I Prelims.
Nearly 2.86 lakh aspirants of Group I posts had appeared in Group-I exam conducted on October 16, 2022.
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March 20, 2023
Telangana govt not involved in TSPSC operations: Gangula to Oppn

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Hyderabad: Telangana civil supplies minister Gangula Kamalakar slammed the opposition party for their remarks over the involvement of the state government in the TSPSC paper leak case.
Telangana unit Congress chief A Revanth Reddy on Sunday alleged that the personal assistant of the state minister for IT KT Rama Rao has played a key role in the question paper leak case
Condemning the statement, Kamalakar came down heavily on Revanth Reddy and said the Congress was casting aspersive charges against KTR’s personal assistant Tirupati as he belonged to a backward class.
The minister while addressing the media at Telangana Bhavan on Sunday claimed that the opposition parties were trying to defame the BRS government and urged people to turn a deaf ear to baseless allegations.
“As a responsible government, they have already got three persons involved in the case arrested and appointed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to conduct an in-depth investigation into the case,” asserted Gangula.
Recalling such instances from the past when Congress ruled the state, he asked, “Did any BJP or Congress minister resign or were they sacked by the respective government?”
He further recalled APPSC member Ripunjay Reddy was arrested in a similar paper leak case during the Rosaiah government’s regime in erstwhile Andhra Pradesh and said, “Over the years, papers of many recruitment exams were leaked in many BJP and Congress-ruled States and aspirations of unemployed youth were shattered.”
“However, K Rosaiah or the then IT minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah did not resign. In 2017 as well, the Hyderabad police arrested a woman over the UPPSC paper leak case. But neither Prime Minister Narendra Modi nor the then IT minister has resigned,” he added.

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March 20, 2023
Telangana govt not involved in TSPSC operations: Gangula to Oppn

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Hyderabad: Telangana civil supplies minister Gangula Kamalakar slammed the opposition party for their remarks over the involvement of the state government in the TSPSC paper leak case.
Telangana unit Congress chief A Revanth Reddy on Sunday alleged that the personal assistant of the state minister for IT KT Rama Rao has played a key role in the question paper leak case
Condemning the statement, Kamalakar came down heavily on Revanth Reddy and said the Congress was casting aspersive charges against KTR’s personal assistant Tirupati as he belonged to a backward class.
The minister while addressing the media at Telangana Bhavan on Sunday claimed that the opposition parties were trying to defame the BRS government and urged people to turn a deaf ear to baseless allegations.
“As a responsible government, they have already got three persons involved in the case arrested and appointed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to conduct an in-depth investigation into the case,” asserted Gangula.
Recalling such instances from the past when Congress ruled the state, he asked, “Did any BJP or Congress minister resign or were they sacked by the respective government?”
He further recalled APPSC member Ripunjay Reddy was arrested in a similar paper leak case during the Rosaiah government’s regime in erstwhile Andhra Pradesh and said, “Over the years, papers of many recruitment exams were leaked in many BJP and Congress-ruled States and aspirations of unemployed youth were shattered.”
“However, K Rosaiah or the then IT minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah did not resign. In 2017 as well, the Hyderabad police arrested a woman over the UPPSC paper leak case. But neither Prime Minister Narendra Modi nor the then IT minister has resigned,” he added.

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March 20, 2023
Telangana: Congress calls on President to dissolve TSPSC

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Hyderabad: Congress party protested on Sunday demanding the intervention of the President of India into the Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) paper leak and called for the resignations of chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and IT minister KT Rama Rao.
Speaking to the media district congress committee president Sameer Waliullah said that the President of India should intervene to sack the TSPSC chairman B Janardhan Reddy and all members and replace them with efficient people.
Congress leaders burned an effigy of KCR during the protest at the Gandhi Bhavan and demanded for a probe into the paper leak by a sitting judge of the Telangana High Court.
Sameer said that the paper leak and cancellation of three exams have shattered the dreams of thousands of candidates. It has caused immense mental agony to the candidates, and the state government should compensate them for their losses.
He condemned the suicide of a Group-1 aspirant, Naveen from Sricilla, and termed it “institutional murder.” He demanded that all responsible for the paper leak be booked for Naveen’s murder.
He said, “Candidates had put in months of hard work to crack the exams, expecting to secure a government job. However, the criminal negligence of TSPSC and the lethargic attitude of the KCR government led to the leakage of question papers, resulting in the hard work of lakhs of students going in vain.”
Sameer said that KCR should have sacked all the concerned ministers and demanded the entire board of TSPSC to step down from their posts.
The Congress leader accused KTR of triggering a blame game with opposition parties to divert attention to protect the real culprits. “The guilty should be punished, regardless of their political affiliation,” he said.

He alleged that KCR and his family have been looting Telangana and selling off its assets and resources. “By failing to prevent the leakage of question papers in many exams, he allowed the sale of government jobs through the paper leak. We demand the resignation of CM KCR and KTR,” he said.
Telangana unit Congress chief A Revanth Reddy on Sunday alleged that the personal assistant of KTR has played a key role in the paper leak.
He also alleged that KTR’s personal assistant Tirupati has links with Rajasekhar Reddy, a contract employee of TSPSC and the second prime accused in the case. He claimed that the paper leakage happened from KTR’s office.
He said the minister gave Rajasekhar Reddy a job in TSPSC on the recommendation of Tirupati.
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March 19, 2023