2 booked for leaking departmental exam paper
The Hindu
CPMG director accused of taking ₹3 lakh from 12 candidates
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has booked a director with the Chief Post Master General (CPMG) office in Rajasthan’s Jaipur, along with a private person, for allegedly leaking a paper of the departmental competitive examination held in September 2019. The accused persons have been identified as CPMG director N.R. Meena and his conduit, Shyam. The case pertains to the examination conducted for the posts of assistants/sorting assistants in the postal divisions on September 15, 2019. Two papers were prepared for the examination, one supplied by the Postal Directorate in Delhi and the other by Mr. Meena, in which 908 candidates appeared. One of them later lodged a complaint alleging that although he had performed well in the first paper, he found the questions in the second paper to be “very tough”.
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