ED has arrested 05 persons under the provisions of Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA),2002 on 11.01.2024 in the matter of Paper Leak Case of Senior Teacher 2nd Grade Competitive Examination, 2022 in Rajasthan
Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has arrested 05 persons namely Suresh Kumar AKA Suresh Sau, Vijay Damore, Peeraram, Pukhraj, and Arun Sharma under the provisions of Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002 on 11.01.2024 in the matter of Paper Leak Case of Senior Teacher 2 nd Grade Competitive Examination, 2022 in Rajasthan. The arrested persons were produced before the Hon’ble Special Court (PMLA), Jaipur and the Hon’ble Court granted 03 days ED Custody.
ED initiated investigation under the PMLA, 2002 on the basis of FIRs/Charge-sheets registered/ filed by Rajasthan Police, under various sections of IPC against Babulal Katara, Anil Kumar Meena AKA Sher Singh Meena and the above mentioned arrested persons.
ED investigation revealed that Arun Sharma provided 29 candidates ( for whom leaked papers were arranged and who were appearing in the above said competitive examination) to Anil Kumar Meena in lieu of Rs. 2 Lakh per candidate. Anil Sharma also paid Rs. 10 lakhs in advance to Anil Meena in lieu of getting the leaked papers for the candidates. Further, Peeraram was involved in the said paper leak since he provided his own bus for facilitating and tutoring the right answers of leaked question paper to candidates on the instruction of Suresh Sau. Further Pukhraj was involved since he arranged the stay of candidates, assisted in providing the solution of the leaked question paper and also appeared in the examination held on 21.12.2022 for which he got the concerned leaked paper from Suresh Sau. Further, Suresh Sau was actively involved in paper leak case for the promised felonious amount of Rs. 1 Crore from Bhupendra Saran and Suresh Dhaka. He took the said leaked question paper from his brother in law and main mastermind of the said Paper Leak Scam, Suresh Dhaka, and provided the question paper and solution to the appearing candidates. Further, Vijay Damore had written down the questions of GK paper in a register on the instruction of his maternal uncle Babulal Katara (Member of RPSC) and supplied the said register to Anil Kumar Meena AKA Sher Singh Meena, who in turn supplied it to Bhupendra Saran, Arun Sharma and others in exchange for felonious money.
In this case, ED had earlier conducted two searches at 22 premises of accused persons on 05.06.2023 and 13.10.2023, resulting in recovery of incriminating documents/digital records. Further, ED had also provisionally attached movable & immovable properties worth Rs. 3.11 Core approx. of Babulal Katara, Anil Meena AKA Sher Singh Meena and Others vide Provisional Attachment Order dated 18.08.2023. Also ED had earlier arrested 03 accused persons namely Babulal Katara, Anil Kumar Meena and Bhupendra Saran in the matter. Prosecution Complaint against Babulal Katara, Anil Kumar Meena and Bhupendra Saran have also been filed by ED on 09.11.2023 before the Ld. Special Court of PMLA at Jaipur.
Further investigation is under progress.