BHOPAL, March 2 -- The Madhya Pradesh police on Monday registered a First Information Report (FIR) against 12 candidates in the 2024 Excise Constable online recruitment exam after system alerts revealed they all completed their 100-question paper in just 15 minutes last year.

An FIR has been registered against the candidates and an unknown person under Section 318(4) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), which pertains to cheating and dishonestly inducing a person to deliver a valuable security or a signed or sealed document.

The 12 exam papers were red-flagged during an analysis of online exam data for successful candidates. A total of 1,10,032 candidates had appeared for the Excise Constable Recruitment Examination conducted between S...