Janjivan Bureau
Patna: Bihar Staff Selection Commission chairman and senior IAS officer Sudhir Kumar was today arrested from Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh by a Special Investigation Team in connection with the paper leak scam in clerical-grade recruitment examination.
“SIT has arrested BSSC chairman Sudhir Kumar and four others, including his close kins, in connection with the paper leak matter,” Patna Zonal Inspector General of Police (IGP) N H Khan told.
“The SIT has arrested Kumar on the basis of concrete evidence of his role in the entire matter of paper leak,” Khan added.
A 1987-batch IAS officer, police sources said four of his family members had been detained.
They said the police would produce Kumar in a Hazaribagh court and seek transit remand to bring him to Patna.
The case pertains to the alleged leak of question papers for a test conducted by BSSC for the recruitment of 17,000 panchayat secretaries, revenue workers and clerks across the state.
The matter came to light when handwritten answers of 127 out of the 150 questions surfaced in public domain hours before the first two phases of the examination were held on January 29 and February 5, forcing the government to cancel the exams after a preliminary probe confirmed that the “sanctity of the exam had been compromised.”
