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According to the ATS, both the natives of Bihar currently living in Vadodara are the kingpins in the case (Representational Image)
The exam, which was to be held on January 29, was postponed after the Gujarat Anti Terrorist Squad raided a computer center in Vadodara at around 1:30 a.m. that day after the leak came to the fore.
Two persons allegedly involved in the Gujarat Panchayat Junior Clerk exam paper leak were nabbed from West Bengal’s Kolkata and brought here on Friday, taking the total number of arrests in the case to 19, an official said.
The exam, which was to be held on January 29, was postponed after the leak came to light following a raid by the Gujarat Anti Terrorist Squad on a computer center in Vadodara at around 1:30 pm that day. Fifteen people were arrested at that time.
According to the ATS, the two, who are natives of Bihar currently living in Vadodara, are the kingpins in the case.
While 15 persons were nabbed during the raid on the computer centre, an employee of a printing press in Telangana’s Hyderabad, which was given the contract to print exam papers by the Gujarat government, was nabbed soon after. The seventeenth accused was caught in Odisha. According to the police, most of the accused are engaged in the business of education consultancy.
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