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Uttar Pradesh authorities connected Wednesday (January 7, 2026) cancelled the Assistant Professor introspection conducted past twelvemonth by the Uttar Pradesh Education Service Selection Commission (UPESSC) aft an alleged insubstantial leak and amerciable extortion racket came to light.
The authorities added it remains firmly committed to ensuring that each recruitment and enactment processes successful the State are conducted successful a free, fair, transparent, and integrity-driven manner.
"In enactment with this commitment, the Special Task Force (STF) of Uttar Pradesh, portion gathering quality connected cheating syndicates, received inputs regarding irregularities, malpractice, and amerciable extortion linked to the Assistant Professor introspection held nether Advertisement No. 51 by the Uttar Pradesh Education Service Selection Commission, Prayagraj, successful April 2025,” an authoritative connection said.
Taking cognizance of the matter, CM Yogi Adityanath ordered a confidential inquiry, the connection said.
“Acting connected credible inputs, the STF connected April 20, 2025, arrested 3 accused, Mehboob Ali, Baijnath Pal, and Vinay Pal, who were portion of a pack progressive successful preparing fake question papers for the Assistant Professor introspection conducted connected April 16 and 17, 2025, and defrauding candidates done amerciable means. The arrests were made connected charges of introspection rigging and extortion,” the connection further read.
Accordingly, the Commission was requested to supply information related to the suspected candidates. "Cross-verification of this information confirmed that the sanctity of the introspection had been compromised. In presumption of these developments, the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Shri Yogi Adityanath, has ordered the cancellation of the Assistant Professor examination," the connection added.
The U.P. STF registered a lawsuit (FIR No. 144/25, Sections 112, 308(5), 318(4) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023) astatine Vibhutikhand Police Station, Lucknow. To guarantee the impartiality and confidentiality of the probe, the past Chairperson of the Commission was asked to resign, arsenic the premier accused, Mehboob Ali, served arsenic the confidential adjunct to the outgoing Chairperson.
U.P. CM Yogi Adityanath further directed Uttar Pradesh Education Service Selection Commission to behaviour the introspection afresh astatine the earliest, ensuring implicit fairness, transparency, and integrity.
