The items seized by the defendant included cell phones and photocopies of the interrogation papers.
Lucknow:
An official here announced shortly before the exam started to be held on Sunday that the Uttar Pradesh Teacher Qualification Test (UPTET) had been canceled.
Superintendent of Laws and Orders Supplement Prashant Kumar said that last night, the Uttar Pradesh Task Force (STF) arrested 23 people using technology and other intelligence from different cities of the state.
UP Minister Yogi Adityanath said the perpetrators would be apprehended under the National Security Act and the Gangster Act. He also ordered the exam to be rescheduled within a month.
“A question paper was exposed. I ordered that the test be canceled and the entire racket seized. Instructions were also given to conduct the exam within a month and no candidate has to pay. extra fee,” he said. Deoria County on Sunday.
He said the order to send students home on the free UPSRTC bus is based on their admission cards.
“Those who have committed this behavior should listen that cases will be registered against them under the Gangster Act and the National Security Act,” he said.
Later in a tweet in Hindi, CM said assets would be seized by the government from those involved in the leak.
Nearly 200,000 candidates will appear for the Uttar Pradesh Teachers Eligibility Test (UPTET) on Sunday.
Earlier in the day, ADG said those arrested included four from Lucknow, 13 from Prayagraj, three from Meerut STF and one from Kaushambi district.
“A copy of the questionnaire was shared with the government,” he said. This makes it clear that the copy contains the same set of questions as the official questionnaire.
“Immediately, the government decided that the exam should be canceled and re-organized within the next one month. All costs for the exam will be covered by the government. Candidates will not have to pay a fee or fill it out. test form,” he added.
The official said the matter will be investigated by the UP STF and that the people or organizations involved in the leak will not be spared.
The test questionnaires did not reach the testing centers until Sunday morning.
The items seized by the defendant included cell phones and photocopies of the interrogation papers.
“Apart from UP, several people of Bihar have also been arrested in this matter. The solver gang leaked the question paper or a solver (who pretended to be a candidate) appeared instead of the candidate”, Mr. Kumar said and more arrests will be made.
The situation at the centers is under control and notices have been made there to urge applicants to return to their homes, the official added.
Mr. Adityanath in a tweet said, “The state government is standing with UPTET applicants, and a re-exam will be held transparently within a month.”
He said in another tweet.
UP Basic Education Minister Satish Dwivedi said the exam – in both cases – was canceled shortly after the leak became public and promised stern action against the perpetrators.
The head of the Samajwadi Party, Akhilesh Yadav, blamed the BJP government for the leak saying such incidents had become a norm under its rule.
“Cancelling the UPTET exam due to a question paper leak is like playing with the future of nearly 200,000 candidates. Paper leaks, test cancellations are common in the BJP government,” he said in a tweet. in Hindi.
“Corruption in education in UP is at an all-time high. The unemployed will usher in a revolution and there will be a change in 2022.”
Congress Secretary-General Priyanka Gandhi Vadra also alleges that corruption in education and recruitment has become widespread under the BJP.
“Recruitment corruption, question papers leaks have become the identity of the BJP government,” she said in a tweet posted in Hindi.
“Today, the efforts of tens of thousands of young people have been in vain after the question paper was leaked. Every time there is a leak of the questionnaire paper, the Yogi Adityanath government saves the top dogs. This is it. the reason why corruption is at its peak,” she added.
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