LUCKNOW, Feb. 15 -- Two alleged members of an examination cheating racket were arrested in a joint operation by the Meerut Unit of the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) and the Uttarakhand STF in connection with the ongoing SSC MTS recruitment examination, officials said on Saturday.

Amitabh Yash, additional director general of police (law and order), said the accused were apprehended under the Kotwali police station area in Dehradun. The arrests relate to alleged malpractice in the SSC Multi-Tasking Staff (MTS) examination being conducted from February 4.

The accused have been identified as Nitish Kumar, a resident of Surjipur village in Deoria district of Uttar Pradesh, and Bhaskar Naithani, son of Dinesh Chandra Naithani and a r...