LUCKNOW, June 19 -- The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) arrested a wanted accused in the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC) Review Officer/Assistant Review Officer (Preliminary) Examination-2023 paper leak case, more than two years after the scam surfaced, senior UP STF officials confirmed in a press note shared on Thursday.

They arrested the accused, identified as Alok Mishra-a Ghazipur resident currently living in Mau-on Thursday from Mau district. He had been absconding in the case registered at Civil Lines police station in Prayagraj.

During interrogation, Mishra allegedly admitted that he and his brother-in-law, Krishna Pandey, had contacted a man named Amarjeet Sharma in Varanasi about two weeks before the exam...