19 arrests made till date in TSPSC paper leak case

Hyderabad: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) exam paper leak case has arrested two more accused.

Mibayya and his son Janardhan, who hail from Mahbubnagar, have been arrested, taking the number of persons arrested so far to 19. Mibayya had allegedly paid Rs 2 lakh to Lavdyavath Dhakya, one of the accused already arrested in the case, for a question paper of the exam conducted by TSPSC for recruitment of assistant engineers. Janardhan had appeared in the exam.

Dhakya is husband of Renuka, a teacher who had obtained question papers from prime accused Praveen Kumar, an employee in TSPSC. She had purchased the question paper for her brother Rajeshwar Nayak, who had appeared in the AE exam. She, along with Dhakya, had sold question papers to others.

The TSPSC scam came to light on March 12 which led to the arrest of 15 accused besides the cancellation of the Group 1 preliminary examination, Assistant Engineers, AEE, and DAO exams. Praveen, who worked as an assistant section officer at TSPSC and Rajashekar Reddy, a network admin at ATSPSC, had allegedly stolen question papers.