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New Delhi, June 2
The 2023 MP Police Constable Recruitment Exam witnessed a scam were multiple solvers were caught.
The exam was conducted by the Madhya Pradesh Employees Selection Board (MPESB).
The police have arrested a dozen people have been across three districts, including both the candidates who applied and the impostors who took the exams for them.
As per the case details, the recruitment exam was held between August 12 and September 12, 2023 and as many as 7 lakh applicants appeared for 7,090 positions. The written test results were declared in March 2024, followed by final selections made in March 2025 after physical tests.
The fraud came to light when candidates were about to join and police found discrepancies in their identities and Aadhar card.
The officials ran a fingerprint analysis which confirmed the person who appeared for the exam was not Gurjar, but someone else.
The first case was reported of one Gurjar whose finger print analysis was done after which he confessed that a solver named Amarendra Singh from Bihar had taken the exam for him for Rs 1 lakh. The police have arrested both in the case.
Im Sheopur district, police arrested seven persons identified as Sonu Rawat, Santosh Rawat and Aman Singh, and their solvers. Aadhaar agents who enabled biometric alterations were also taken into custody.
