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Telangana: Revanth alleges KTR aide’s involvement in TSPSC paper leak

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Hyderabad: Telangana unit Congress chief A. Revanth Reddy on Sunday alleged that the personal assistant of state minister for industries and information technology K.T. Rama Rao has played a key role in the question paper leak case that has rocked Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC)
He also alleged that KTR’s PA Tirupati has links with Rajasekhar Reddy, a contract employee of TSPSC and number two accused in the case.
Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president 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.
Revanth Reddy, who is currently on Haath se haath jodo padyatra, sat on protest in Kamareddy district over the question paper leak.
He demanded the state government should immediately order a probe by a sitting judge of the High Court.
He also announced that he would take the issue of paper leakage to the High Court.
Stating that TSPSC employees are ineligible to attend the exams conducted by TSPSC, he wondered how 20 employees appeared in exams.

Praveen Kumar, an employee of the Commission, had appeared in the Group-I Prelims. He had scored 103 marks.
The Congress leader said in the past, TSPSC employee Rajinikanth was selected for Group-I post. He had secured fourth rank.
Revanth Reddy said that the probe should cover all those who scored more than 100 marks in Group-I Prelims. He said 100 candidates from one mandal scored more than 100 marks.
The TPCC chief said that there were irregularities in Group-I results in 2016. Madhuri, who had come from the US to write the exam, secured first rank, he said.
He also claimed that 25 candidates who wrote Group-II exam in one place secured jobs.
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 persons 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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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 19, 2023
Sack ministers, TSPSC board for question papers leak: Bhatti

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Hyderabad: Congress Legislature Party leader Bhatti Vikarmarka on Saturday called for the resignation of all concerned ministers and the entire board of Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) from their posts immediately following the leakage of questions papers of recruitment exams conducted by the TSPSC. He also demanded that the TSPSC refund the fees paid by students who took the exams and compensate them for the mental agony caused by the leak.
Bhatti Vikramarka, who is conducting the People’s March in the Khanapur constituency of Adilabad district, as part of the ‘Haath Se Haath Jodo’ Yatra, said that the ministers, TSPSC Chairman and all members must resign. Else, the President of India must intervene to ensure their removal. Further, he demanded that all officials and non-officials responsible for the leak of question papers must be punished severely.
“We achieved statehood for Telangana to cater to the needs of the unemployed youth and to provide them with good jobs. Unfortunately, BRS Govt is not doing that. The job notifications were issued after a long wait. However, the leakage of question papers has shattered the students and their dreams. The recent paper leak has only added to the disappointment felt by many young people in the state who have been struggling to find employment,” he said.
Bhatti said that the TSPSC has cancelled the exams whose papers were leaked and assured to re-conduct those exams. However, it also needs to take responsibility for the expenditure which students have incurred for writing those exams.
“The TSPSC has to return the money which candidates have spent towards fees, transportation and other preparations. They are unemployed youth. Each applicant must have spent thousands of rupees. Therefore, a minimum amount must be calculated and paid to all the candidates. The State Government or the TSPC should also pay compensation for the mental agony they have caused to the candidates and their families,” he demanded.
Bhatti also blamed the BRS govt for the suicide of a jobless youth Chitikena Naveen Kumar (32) of B Y Nagar in Sircilla town. He said that the State Government has failed to provide jobs to lakhs of youth which cause so much disappointment that they are resorting to extreme steps. He demanded that the government pay a compensation of Rs. 1 crore to the victim’s family. Further, he appealed to the youth not to get disheartened and take extreme steps. He said that the Congress party was returning to power soon and the next government would address the problem of unemployment.
The third day of the “People’s March” by Bhatti Vikramarka continued from Kondapur of Sirikonda Mandal in Khanapur Constituency of Adilabad District to Dasnapur of Indravelli Mandal and Keslapur Muthunur Indravelli Mandal centre on Saturday. People from several villagers joined the padayatra and briefed the CLP leader about their problems.
Bhatti Vikarmarka raised concerns about the lack of development in the tribal-dominated Khanapur constituency. He pointed out that several irrigation projects in the area, including the Chikuman and Triveni Sangam, had been left incomplete for nine years, wasting both time and money.

He said the Chikuman project, with an ayacut of 12,000 acres, was almost completed by the previous Congress regime. Similarly, the Triveni Sangam’s reservoir and other work were completed. He said even after nine years, the present BRS Govt failed to dig canals for these two projects.
The BRS Govt also failed to initiate Putti and Polimadugu projects in the Khanapur constituency. Consequently, all the Mandals in Khanapur have been facing a drought-like situation. He called on the BRS Govt to prioritize the completion of these projects without further. Stating that the Congress party was all set to return to power soon, he assured that the next Congress Govt would complete all four projects on a priority basis. He promised to bring back glory to the ITDA projects which are being crippled by the TRS government.
Bhatti Vikramarka visited Nagoba Temple, the tribal deity of Keslapur village, Indravelli Mandal. After performing special poojas in the temple, He received blessings in the main mandapam. On this occasion, he inquired about the problems with the villagers. He said that he was doing the padayatra to understand the problems being faced by the people so that they could be resolved after the Congress party comes to power.
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March 19, 2023
Hyderabad: OU students demand overhaul of TSPSC, Rs 1 lakh compensation

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Hyderabad: Tensions broke out near the main library building of Osmania University (OU) as hundreds of students protested demanding the overhaul of the Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) over the paper leakage row.
The rally was conducted from the library building to the Arts college. Various student parties and unemployed youth demanded an investigation by a sitting judge of the Telangana High Court as well as a compensation of Rs 1 lakh to each unemployed candidate of the TSPSC exams.
OU student Ramana shaved his head on the road to show his dissatisfaction with the cancellation of the Group 1 exam that was announced by the commission on Friday.
“The fact that the paper leakage gives one candidate undue advantage over another is in itself a violation of my Fundamental Rights,” said Pottepaka Sandeep, a Group 1 qualified candidate and political science research scholar.
He said that examinations conducted by state public commissions are prone to paper leakages due to the presence of political patronage.
Speaking to Siasat.com, state vice-president of Progressive Democratic Students Union (PDSU) Gaddam Shyam said that it is hard to believe the commission was not aware of the leak done by its own employee.
Holding the entire board responsible for the mishap, Shyam demanded the formation of a new commission.
The All India Students’ Federation (AISF) general secretary Nelli Satya spoke about the hardship a candidate goes through while preparing for the examinations.

“The government scrapped the Group 1 prelims exam conducted in December 2022 and conveniently decides to re-conduct in June. They are blissfully unaware of the mental stress a candidate goes through, the preparation time and months of hard work and dedication invested,” he said.
He said that chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao must respond and demanded an unemployment allowance of Rs 3,016. “The government should compensate give Rs 1 lakh to all unemployed candidates,” Satya added.
On Saturday, members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by former minister Eatala Rajender presented a letter to Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan demanding CM KCR’s resignation.
However, students feel that with the onset of Assembly elections later this year, political parties are taking advantage.
“The opposition parties approaching the Governor to take action would only open a window for the Centre to culminate it into a political issue. We believe this is a state issue and should be dealt with by the state government. This threatens the federal spirit of the nation,” said OU student Sandeep.
Background
The TSPSC conducted the examination on March 5 for 833 vacancies for the post 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 appeared in the Group-I exam conducted on October 16, 2022.
Telangana IT minister KT Rama Rao on Saturday said that the four Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) exams cancelled due to a paper leak will be re-held without fee as the students have already paid for the cancelled exams.
Speaking to the media at BRBK Bhavan on Saturday he said that the government will ensure that all the coaching material for the four exams will be uploaded online. He said that the government will strengthen the study circles across the state and keep the study rooms open round the clock through the day.
(With excerpts from IANS)
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 18, 2023
Hyderabad: BSP state chief detained amid hunger strike over TSPSC paper leak

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Hyderabad: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Telangana chief RS Praveen Kumar was taken into custody by the Telangana police on Friday ahead of his indefinite hunger strike over the leak of the Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) Assistant Engineer (civil) exam paper.
The BSP supremo was holding an indefinite hunger strike at his party office on Lakdikapul when the police took him into custody.
Praveen Kumar had demanded that the group I exams be cancelled and the investigation into the leak be handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation.
In a statement on Wednesday Kumar had stated that he was giving the state government 48 hours to hand over the case to the central agency or he would take up a fast onto death.
Demanding that the TSPSC chairman Janadhanan redyy step down immediately, he stated that he would write to the President and Gocernot over the same.
He also questioned Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao and state IT minister KT Rama Rao’s silence on the same.
“All the examinations held during Janardhan Reddy’s tenure should be cancelled and re-conducted. TSPSC has lost the trust of Telangana people. Details of candidates who have crossed 100 marks in Group 1 Prelims should be disclosed,” said Praveen Kumar.
The BSP leader also alleged that the government was attempting to wash its hands of the case by handing it over to an SIT and terming the leak as a technical error.

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March 17, 2023
TSPSC leaks: Telangana BJP chief on one-day hunger strike demanding judicial probe

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Hyderabad: Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party president Bandi Sanjay Kumar will sit on a day-long hunger strike at the state party headquarters on Friday demanding that the state government order a judicial inquiry by a sitting high court judge into the leakage of the examination paper of the recruitment test conducted by the Telangana State Public Service Commission.
Sanjay also demanded the immediate sacking of state information technology minister KT Rama Rao from the cabinet, as his IT department had ‘failed to prevent the leakage of the question paper’, besides a complete overhaul of the TSPSC and payment of compensation of Rs 1 lakh to each of the unemployed youth who had suffered due to cancellation of the examination.
Before commencing the hunger strike, the BJP president would go to the Telangana martyrs’ memorial at Gun Park in front of the state assembly at 10 am to pay homage to the martyrs. “This is to highlight the fact that the K Chandrasekhar Rao government has belittled the sacrifices made by over 1400 youth for the sake of Telangana state,” a press note from BJP said.
Later, Sanjay would sit on a protest hunger strike from 10.30 am to 2.30 pm at the party office, the party said.
On Thursday morning, the BJP president went to Chanchalguda Central Prison to call on the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha leaders, who were arrested while protesting at the TSPSC office on Wednesday.
Speaking to reporters later, Sanjay strongly condemned the lathi-charge and arrest of BJYM state president Bhanu Prakash and others who were doing a ‘peaceful’ protest over the leakage of the TSPSC question paper. “While the accused in the leakage case are being given the royal treatment, those who took part in the protests are subject to harassment,” he alleged.
The Begum Bazaar police arrested seven activists of Bhartiya Janata Yuva Morcha for rioting and damaging public property at the Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) during the protest on Tuesday.
Sanjay sought to know how the question paper was leaked without the knowledge of the TSPSC chairman. “In fact, the TSPSC officials should be prosecuted first. The constitution of an SIT is just a hoax as it would not serve any purpose. Many SITs constituted in the past did not yield any results,” he said.

Stating that the entire episode was a ‘drama’ enacted by KCR’s son KT Rama Rao, Sanjay wondered why the state government was hesitating to order a judicial probe by a sitting high court judge.
Stating that the ‘failure’ of KTR is clearly evident in the entire episode, Sanjay said the Information Technology department, headed by KTR had miserably failed to prevent leakage of the question paper. “It is shameless on the part of KTR to say that the BJP has a role in the leakage, on the pretext that one of the arrested Rajasekhar has connections with the BJP,” he said.
He pointed out that Rajasekhar had been an employee of Telangana State Technology Services, which is part of the IT department headed by KTR. “What is KTR doing instead of identifying such people? He is unfit to be a minister,” he said.
Sanjay said Rajasekhar had nothing to do with the BJP. “Many people come to me to take selfies. Does it mean I have connections with all of them?” he asked.
He alleged out that the mastermind behind the question paper leakage Renuka has connections with the Bharat Rashtra Samithi. “Her mother is a sarpanch of BRS. Her brother is a BRS leader. So, for whose benefit the question paper was leaked?” he asked.
He demanded that all those, including the TSPSC chairman, be sacked and stringent action be taken against them. “The government should conduct recruitment tests as scheduled,” he said.
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March 16, 2023
TSPSC cancels exam after paper leak, fresh date to be announced soon

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Hyderabad: Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) ordered the cancellation of an examination held on March 5, this year in view of a paper leak.
The TSPSC said a fresh date for conducting the examination will be announced later.
“Commission after careful examination of FIR No. 95/2023, Dt: 14/03/2023 registered by Central Crime Station, Hyderabad District, with regard to leakage of question papers, has decided to canel the examination held on 5/3/2023. The fresh date for conducting of examination will be announced later,” read the official notice.
Earlier on Tuesday, leaders of OU Bahujan Students Federation held a rally in Osmania University in protest against the leak of the Telangana State Public Service Commission’s (TSPSC) exam paper.
Speaking to the mediapersons at the rally, Student Federation state president OU JAC Kothapalli Tirupati demanded the resignation of TSPSC chairman Janardhan Reddy.
OU JAC, Kothapalli Tirupati, told reporters, “Junior Engineer and Town planning exam papers were leaked. Many students had been waiting for these exams and studying hard for many years at Osmania University.”
“We came from villages and had been studying hard for SI and Constable coaching, Group 1, Group 2 and others in the hope of getting a job. However, a few rich people bagged these jobs by paying Rs 5 to Rs 10 lakh to the TSPSC. We demand that the TSPSC chairman, Janardhan Reddy, resign immediately and all the accused, including Praveen, be suspended. We also demand that new notifications be issued and the exams conducted again. Strict action should be initiated against those behind the leak. They may even include higher officials,” he added.
Further investigation of the Assistant Engineer Recruitment Test paper leak case, which was reported on Monday, was transferred to SIT, said the City Police Commissioner on Tuesday.

According to a statement by the Hyderabad police, “The further investigation of the Assistant Engineer recruitment test leakage case reported on 13-3-2023 vide Cr.No. 64/2023 U Sec.409,420, 120(B) IPC, 66B, 66C,70 of IT Act, Sec.4 of Telangana Public Examination (Prevention of Malpractices and unfair means) Act 1997 of Begumbazar Police Station, Hyderabad City, is hereby transferred to SIT CCS, Hyderabad City for further investigation under the direct supervision of Addl.CP Crimes and SIT Hyderabad City with immediate effect. SHO Begumbazar PS and Addl. CP Crimes and SIT will take necessary action accordingly and report compliance.”
Hyderabad police arrested nine people for their alleged involvement in Telangana State Public Service Commission’s (TSPSC) public exam paper leak, officials said on Tuesday.
(Except for the headline, the story has not been edited by Siasat staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)]
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March 16, 2023
Hyderabad: SIT begins investigation into TSPSC exam paper leak case

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Hyderabad: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) from the state police started its investigation after re-registering a case into the Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) Assistant Engineer (civil) exam paper leak case on Wednesday.
AR Srinivas, Additional Commissioner (Crimes and SIT), who is supervising the probe into the paper leak case, said the SIT visited the TSPSC office accompanied by cybercrime sleuths and inspected the computer system management.
The police officials questioned the employees of TSPSC who are connected with the handling and custody of the question paper of different recruitment test conducted by the TSPSC. The staff of the confidential section where only selected people have access were questioned by SIT officials.
The team stayed for nearly three hours in the TSPSC office as part of their investigation. The sleuths also studied the computer systems management protocols. Hyderabad Police Commissioner CV Anand asked the SIT to take over the case and directed the A R Srinivas to supervise the investigation in the case.
Nine persons were arrested in the question paper leak case where Praveen Kumar, an Assistant Section Officer working as personal assistant to the Secretary of TSPSC and Renuka, a Hindi Pandit teacher from Mahabubnagar played a key role.
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.
As the two employees TSPSC allegedly copied folders containing the question papers of various exams from computers in the confidential section, the Commission already postponed recruitment examinations to posts of Town Planning Building Overseer scheduled on March 12 and Veterinary Assistant Surgeon scheduled to be held on March 15 and 16.
The Commission is scheduled to meet later in the day to take a decision on cancelling the exam held on March 5 and conduct re-exam.

(With additional inputs from agencies).
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March 15, 2023
TSPSC paper leak: Accused is BJP worker, claims BRS; KTR asks for probe

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Hyderabad; The BRS party on Wednesday alleged that the second accused A Rajashekhar Reddy is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and has put out photos of him wearing the saffron party’s shawl along with social media posts in support of the party.
Responding to BRS leader Jagan Patimeedi’s post claiming the same, Telangana minister KT Rama Rao said that just to malign the state government, the BJP seems to have hatched a ‘conspiracy’. He asked the state DGP to investigate this matter thoroughly.
“Even by the very low standards of BJP, this is vulgarity at its worst Just to malign Telangana Govt, BJP seems to have hatched a conspiracy to destroy the lives of innocent youth I request the @TelanganaDGP Garu to enquire this matter thoroughly and bring perpetrators to justice,” he tweeted.
Even by the very low standards of BJP, this is vulgarity at its worst
Just to malign Telangana Govt, BJP seems to have hatched a conspiracy to destroy the lives of innocent youth
I request the @TelanganaDGP Garu to enquire this matter thoroughly and bring perpetrators to… https://t.co/kZnCg0GRWH
— KTR (@KTRBRS) March 15, 2023
Raja Sekhar worked as a network administrator at TSPSC.
The accused persons P Praveen Kumar (32) Assistant Section Officer (ASO) at TSPSC, A Raja Sekhar (35), a network administrator at TSPSC, Renuka (35) a school teacher, L Dhakya (38) a technical assistant, K Rajeshwar (33), K Neelesh Nayak (28), P Gopal Nayak (29), K Srinivas (30) and K Rajendra Nayak (31) had been arrested by the Begum Bazaar police with the assistance of Hyderabad Commissioner’s Task Force (Central) team on Monday.
Praveen, who works at TSPSC, contacted Raja Sekhar for the question paper of the Assistant Engineer (Civil) and both of them allegedly managed to get the paper from the confidential section of the TSPSC by hacking into a computer of the section officer in charge of custody of the question paper.
They allegedly transferred the 25 papers into a pen drive from the computer and later handed it over to Renuka and her husband Dhakya, who paid them Rs 5 lakh initially on March 2 and another Rs 5 lakh on March 6. Dhakya on getting the papers informed about it Rajeshwar Nayak, his relative who tried to make money, contacted Neelesh and Gopal, who were appearing for the exam, and discussed the possibility of striking a deal for the leaked exam question paper.
“After fixing the deal for Rs 13.5 lakh, Rajeshwar, and Dhakya handed over the question paper to Neelesh and Gopal who appeared for the exam. Both Srinivas, a constable working at Medchal police station, and Rajendra had helped the candidates,” DCP (Southwest) Kiran Khare said.

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March 15, 2023
Telangana: TSPSC cancels Assistant Engineer Exam after paper leak

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Hyderabad: Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) on Wednesday declared the Assistant Engineer Exam for the recruitment of assistant engineers, municipal assistant engineers, technical officers and junior technical officers in various engineering departments, which took place on March 5, stands cancelled and a fresh date for conducting the exam will be announced later.
“Commission after careful examination of the FIR No. 95/2023, Dt : 14/03/2023, registered by the Central Crime Station, Hyderabad District, with regard to the leakage of question papers, has decided to CANCEL the examination held on 5/3/2023. The fresh date for conducting the exam will be announced later,” a press release from TSPSC informed.
The TSPSC issued a notification on September 12, 2022 for 837 vacancies including posts of assistant engineers, municipal assistant engineers, technical officers and junior technical officers in various engineering departments.
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March 15, 2023
Hyderabad: Police arrest BJYM activists for rioting, damaging public property at TSPSC

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Hyderabad: The Begum Bazaar police arrested seven activists of Bhartiya Janata Yuva Morcha for rioting and damaging public property at the Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) during ptotest on Tuesday.
The BJYM under the leadership of A. Bhanu Prakash, State President of BJYM protested at the TSPSC office at Nampally Road on the AE (Civil) exam paper leak issue.
A case under Sections 143, 147, 448, 353 r/w 149 of IPC and Sections 3 & 4 of the PDPP Act was booked at Begum Bazaar.
The seven persons against whom the case was booked are Bhanu Prakash, Shiva Shankar, Pavan Reddy, Jamalpur Ayush, A Raju Netha, Manmadha Rao and Pujari Ramu Yadav. All were arrested and produced before the court.
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March 15, 2023