India, Aug. 30 -- The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has defended its junior engineer (civil), class 3 recruitment examination, saying its probe found no evidence of a pre-exam question paper leak, even as an FIR was registered against three candidates and two examination-centre employees for alleged malpractice.

The civic body said the review, conducted with Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) and supported by TCS and Ernst & Young, found the irregularity was limited to three candidates, whose candidature has been cancelled. The two venue employees allegedly involved have been removed from deployment.

The controversy began after an image purportedly showing a question and its answer options from the online examination was...