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The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) has busted an alleged racket progressive successful rigging Staff Selection Commission (SSC) online recruitment examinations utilizing proxy servers and dummy candidates, arresting 7 radical from Greater Noida, officials said connected Saturday (May 23, 2026).
The accused were allegedly manipulating SSC examinations for recruitment of constables successful the CAPF (Central Armed Police Forces) and SSF (Secretariat Security Force), and riflemen successful the Assam Rifles, astatine an online introspection centre operating nether the sanction "Balaji Digital Zone" successful the Knowledge Park area.
The racket was busted connected Friday (May 23, 2026). Those arrested were identified arsenic Pradeep Chauhan of Muzaffarnagar, Arun Kumar of Mathura, Sandeep Bhati and Nishant Raghav of Bulandshahr, Amit Rana and Shakir Malik of Baghpat, and Vivek Kumar of Bulandshahr, it said.
The STF recovered ₹50 lakh successful cash, 10 mobile phones, 5 laptops, a router, a database of candidates, 2 admit cards, and 4 introduction and individuality cards of the institution "Eduquity" from their possession.
Additional Superintendent of Police, STF Field Unit Noida, Raj Kumar Mishra, said the arrests were made astir 5:20 p.m. pursuing quality inputs astir alleged malpractice astatine the introspection centre.
"The pack was facilitating cheating successful the introspection by deploying proxy servers and seating their ain proxy candidates successful spot of the existent examinees," Mr. Mishra said.
The alleged kingpin, Mr. Chauhan, who holds an M.Com grade from Meerut College, had established the online introspection centre successful Greater Noida and had been progressive successful manipulating online examinations for a agelong time, the STF said.
Mr. Mishra said the introspection astatine the centre was being conducted by the institution "Eduquity" astatine the clip of the raid.
During interrogation, Mr. Chauhan allegedly disclosed that co-accused Rana devised a strategy done which introspection papers were solved remotely utilizing a "solver" by bypassing the company's server done a screen-sharing spectator exertion and proxy server.
Arun Kumar, who initially joined the centre arsenic an invigilator astir two-and-a-half years agone and aboriginal became its IT head, was allegedly liable for installing the proxy server astatine the centre, the STF said.
The STF further said Bhati worked arsenic a laboratory supervisor for companies specified arsenic Mary Track and Dylesis and was tasked with identifying candidates consenting to wage wealth for getting their papers solved. Among those arrested, Vivek Kumar and Shakir Malik were candidates allegedly brought to the centre by Bhati for the racket.
According to the STF, the syndicate charged astir ₹4 lakh per candidate. Of this, ₹50,000 was allegedly kept by the idiosyncratic arranging the candidate, portion the remaining 3.5 lakh was distributed among Mr. Chauhan, Rana, and the solver.
The STF said raids were underway to apprehension 4 different members of the pack who are presently absconding.
