RPSC workers under SOG scanner: Officials
Jaipur, May 18 -- Around eight employees from Rajasthan Public Service Commission (RPSC) are under the lens of Special Operation Group (SOG) who had allegedly destroyed evidences of the dummy candidates from the commission's record room, officials said.
According to officials, the matter came to the fore after the agency arrested one such employee, Man Singh Meena.
A senior officer in SOG said, "Man Singh Meena was arrested last week. He allegedly took Rs.2 lakh from a Karauli-based school lecturer Rajesh Meena who qualified the School Lecturer (History) exam in 2022 with the help of a dummy candidate, Ummed Singh. He allegedly photoshopped Ummed's photo on his admit card. Later, when SOG started verifying documents of all the government employees hired in last five years, he asked Meena to destroy that admit card copy submitted to the school during the recruitment."
"After the arrest, Man has confessed that around 8 to 10 more RPSC staff are also working for different candidates in exchange of money. Their job is to search the commission's record rooms, scrutinise the verification documents submitted by the schools and destroy them," said the officer.
Prima facie, Rajesh has access to the landline phone numbers of the staff who sit in the record room. "He started calling one after another. Meanwhile, Man agreed to his offer when Rajesh called him. He had also demanded Rs.8 lakh for the job but it was later settled to Rs.2 lakh," he added.
Upon receiving an internal tip-off, SOG officials started tracking Man's movement. They have also checked the CCTV footage of the commission.
"Before his arrest, we found Man's frequent movement at the record room. Man's plan was to replace the documents submitted to the commission with fake ones. But his movement raised doubts in some senior RPSC officials who informed RPSC about it," the officer said.
After Man's arrest, RPSC has now also handed all the necessary documents related to Rajesh Meena over to SOG.
The SOG officer said the agency is now preparing a database of over 2,000 dummy candidates who appeared for various recruitment examination impersonating the candidate.
The development also came days after the SOG arrested ex-RPSC member Babulal Katara who was reportedly found leaking the senior lecturer (agriculture)-2022 question paper to the alleged paper leak mafia leader Anil Meena alias Sher Singh.
"Earlier, Katara was also arrested in four other paper leak cases during his term. Enforcement Directorate, in 2024, also arrested him in connection with a money laundering case in SI-2021 exam which was cancelled by Supreme Court. Another ex-RPSC member Ramu Ram Raika was also arrested by SOG with Katara for his alleged involvement in leaking SI-2021 exam paper," he said.
SOG has also summoned ex-RPSC chairman Shiv Singh Rathore twice last week....
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