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The Special Operations Group of the Rajasthan Police connected Tuesday (January 20, 2026) arrested 5 persons, including the method caput of the State Staff Selection Board, connected charges of fraud and irregularities successful 3 recruitment examinations conducted successful 2019. The accused had allegedly manipulated the optical people designation (OMR) sheets successful the exams.
The examinations were held for the recruitment of supervisors (women’s empowerment), laboratory assistants, and agriculture supervisors. A full of 3,212 posts were advertised nether the exams, for which implicit 9.40 lakh candidates had applied.
The confidential enactment of scanning OMR sheets and information processing was outsourced to a Delhi-based firm, Additional Director General, Special Operations Group, Vishal Bansal, said here. “The accused tampered with the information stored successful machine systems aft the scanning process to inflate the marks of immoderate ineligible candidates, helping them wide the exams and get selected,” Mr. Bansal said.
The discrepancies betwixt existent marks and last results were detected upon re-scanning the archetypal OMR sheets. The scanned OMR sheets were digitally altered utilizing image-editing bundle to people close answers, starring to a disproportionate summation successful the marks scored by immoderate candidates.
The accused see Sanjay Mathur, the past Deputy Director and strategy programmer of the Staff Selection Board, who was besides method in-charge of the introspection process. The different arrested accused were identified arsenic Shadan Khan, Vinod Kumar Gaur, Poonam Mathur, and Praveen Gangwal, a programmer with the Board.
The accused had received ample sums of wealth for manipulating the results, Mr. Bansal said. They person been booked nether assorted Sections of the Indian Penal Code, the Rajasthan Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, and the Information Technology Act.
