LUCKNOW, June 10 -- The Uttar Pradesh Economic Offences Wing (EOW) arrested three more accused in the alleged large-scale irregularities in the 2018 village development officer (VDO) recruitment examination. Several other accused were arrested in earlier phases of the investigation. The latest arrests were made under the agency's ongoing drive "Operation Shikanja," aimed at tracing and apprehending wanted accused in examination scams. Officials said the trio had been evading arrest and were picked up from different districts on Monday (June 8). "The accused have been identified as Gangesh Kumar of Azamgarh, Vipin Chaudhary of Sant Kabir Nagar and Sushil Kumar of Jaunpur. Gangesh was arrested from Sidhari police station premises, Vipin was nabbed near a hospital in Khalilabad while Sushil was held from his native village," read details shared by the department. The case relates to the recruitment examination conducted in 2018 by the Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Services Selection Commission (UPSSSC) for 1,953 posts, including VDOs, social welfare supervisors and gram panchayat officers. Tata Consultancy Services had been assigned the task of conducting the exam. Following complaints of irregularities , the state government handed over the probe to a Special Investigation Team (SIT) which was later merged into the EOW....