UP STF has taken major action in the paper leak case of Constable Recruitment Exam of Uttar Pradesh Police. STF has arrested three former employees of TCI Express, which transports exam papers. These include the names of Abhishek Shukla, Shivam Giri and Rohit Pandey. All three have been caught from Vijaynagar police station area of Ghaziabad.
Important information about the entire network of paper leak (UP Police Paper Leak) has come to light from the arrested accused. All three have been employees of Transport Corporation of India Private Limited TCI Express. Abhishek had worked in TCI Express as a training executive in the year 2021.
Abhishek met Shivam Giri while working in TCI Express. Shivam worked at TCI Express’s Kheda warehouse in Ahmedabad, where he met Rohit Pandey. Rohit used to work in TCI Express in November 2021.
It is noteworthy that TCI Express was given the responsibility of transporting the constable recruitment paper from the warehouse after it was printed. One of the arrested accused, Ravi Attri, had given this information to Abhishek Shukla. Ravi had promised to give Rs 5 lakh to Abhishek after getting the papers out and Rs 15 to 20 lakh after the completion of the work. Apart from Shivam Giri, who helped in getting the paper out, every helper was promised Rs 5 lakh.
Know the whole story step by step…
On February 1, 2024, Shivam Giri had called Abhishek Shukla and told that perhaps the goods of UP Police had arrived. When Abhishek Shukla told this to Ravi Attri, Ravi told him to ask Shivam to get a photo of the box.
Then on 3 February, Abhishek Shukla went to Ahmedabad and Ravi Attri also reached Ahmedabad from Delhi.
On February 4, Shivam Giri took a photo of the trunk box and sent it to Abhishek Shukla, then Abhishek sent that photo to Ravi Attri. Ravi Attri called Rajeev Nayan Mishra in front of Abhishek Shukla and told him everything and sent the photo of the box.
After this, Ravi talked to Rajiv about Abhishek, then Rajiv told him to somehow get the UP Police Recruitment Exam paper out. Ravi and Rajeev had also told Abhishek that if the work is done, you will get so much money that there will be no need to do anything else in life. He also talked about getting a government job.
On 5 February 2024, Rajeev Nayan Mishra reached Ahmedabad from Bhopal and deposited Rs 3 lakh in Shivam Giri’s account. Then Ravi Attri called Dr Shubham Mandal, a resident of Patna, who was an expert in opening the box, and told him everything and asked him to come to Ahmedabad. On which he reached Ahmedabad by flight at around 09:30 in the night.
All the accused were found like this
Abhishek Shukla, Ravi Attri and Rajeev Nayan Mishra reached TCI company at around 11:30 pm with Dr. Shubham Mandal from the airport where Shivam Giri and Rohit Kumar Pandey were present.
Rajeev gave his phone to Doctor Shubham and asked Shivam to go with Giri and take a photo of the paper, on which Doctor Shubham and Rohit Kumar Pandey along with Shivam went inside the TCI company. There, Dr. Shubham Mandal opened the trunk box from behind and took out the papers of 02 codes of UP Police Recruitment Examination and took a photo.
After taking the photo of the paper, Abhishek Shukla, Ravi Attri, Dr. Shubham Mandal and Rajeev Nayan Mishra went to Dashmesh Hotel and Shivam Giri and Rohit Kumar Pandey stayed in the mess of TCI company.
After this, on 7 February 2024, another question paper of 01 code came, information about which was given by Shivam Giri to Abhishek Shukla, which Abhishek Shukla told to Rajeev Nayan Mishra and Ravi Attri.
On February 8, Ravi Attri again called Dr. Shubham Mandal and Rajiv Nayan Mishra to Ahmedabad and Rajiv gave his mobile phone to Dr. Shubham and asked him to go with Shivam and take a photo of the said examination paper.
Doctor Shubham and Rohit along with Shivam went inside the TCI company, where Shubham Mandal opened the trunk box from behind, took out a code paper of UP Police and clicked its photo.
The same morning, Dr. Shubham Mandal went to Patna by flight and Rajeev Nayan Mishra remained waiting for the fourth code of the question paper of the above examination. But the question paper of the fourth code could not be released.
Paper was supplied to these people
Rajeev Nayan Mishra and Ravi Attri wrote the question paper of UP Police Recruitment Exam-2024 for Vikram Pahal, Monu Dhakala, Vikam Dahiya, Mahendra Sharma, Gaurav Chaudhary, Monu Pandit, Satish Dhankad (Owner of Nature Valley Resort), Neetu, Dheeraj alias Gave it to Goldie (owner of Bollywood Restaurant Sonipat Haryana) etc.
Know the background of the accused
Shubham Mandal is a doctor by profession, who is being interrogated by the UP STF. At the same time, Rajiv Nayan Mishra had leaked the UP TET paper in the year 2021. A case was registered in Kaushambi by STF and he was sent to jail.
Rajiv had also leaked the paper of Contract Staff Nurse Recruitment Examination, Madhya Pradesh in the year 2023, in relation to which a case has been registered against him in Gwalior, in which he has gone to jail.
Apart from this, Ravi Attri has done MBBS. It had leaked the paper of AIPMT Contractual Staff Nurse Recruitment Examination, Madhya Pradesh in the year 2015. A case is registered against him in Haryana.
What did the DGP tell?
In this matter, DGP Prashant Kumar told in a press conference that the police recruitment exam papers were canceled after the paper was leaked. UP STF was investigating this. STF has disclosed the case. A total of 178 cases were registered so far. Of these, 396 were arrested earlier. Of these, 54 have been arrested by STF. In this case, 3 main accused Abhishek Kumar, Shivam Giri and Rohit Kumar Pandey have also been arrested.
Prashant Kumar further told that when the accused were interrogated, Ravi Atri told that he had told Abhishek Shukla that as soon as the paper reached the warehouse, he should be informed about it. Abhishek informed about the arrival of the paper, after which a photo of the trunk box was sent. Dr. Shubham opened the trunk box, took a photo of the paper and put it back in the trunk box. On February 8, papers were taken out from the warehouse again. Papers were sent to people like Vikram Pahal, Monu Dhakala, Gaurav Chaudhary, Satish Dhankad, Neetu and Dheeraj.
At present, the places where the mastermind of the paper leak has given the papers are being investigated. UP STF is also engaged along with the police. 396 people have been arrested.