Lucknow. CBI has detected and busted a Departmental Examination Paper Leak Scam under the East Central Railway at Mughal Sarai during an operation launched on the intervening night of 3rd and 4th March 2025. In this regard a case has been registered against a Sr. DEE (Ops) and 8 other Railway officials and unknown candidate and unknown others.
East Central Railway had scheduled a Departmental Examination on 4th March, 2025 for the posts of Chief Loco Inspectors. During the checks conducted by CBI at 3 spots on the said intervening night at Mughal Sarai, a total of 17 candidates were found with photocopies of hand-written question papers.
Investigation conducted so far revealed that accused Sr. DEE (Ops) was given the responsibility for setting and preparing the question paper for the said examination. He in his own hand-writing had written the questions in English and allegedly gave it to one Loco Pilot who in turn translated it into Hindi and further gave it to an OS (Trg.). The said OS (Trg.) allegedly in turn gave it to the candidates through few other Railway Employees.
CBI has arrested accused Sr. DEE (Ops) and other Railway employees on allegations of indulging in collection of money and distribution of question papers. As many as, 17 Departmental candidates who are presently working as Loco Pilots allegedly paid money for the question paper and were caught red-handed with the copies of the question papers during the night of 3rd-4th March, 2025, all of them have been arrested. Overall, 26 Railway officials have been arrested in this case so far.
Searches were conducted at 8 locations which resulted in recovery of Rs. 1.17 crore in cash. These amounts were reportedly collected from the candidates for leaking the question papers. The hand-written question papers along with their photocopies were seized and these question papers have been tallied with the original/ actual question paper and were found to have matched. Investigation is continuing.
