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NOIDA: A 47-year-old man, who was jailed in connection with the Madhya Pradesh Vyapam scam, was arrested in Jhansi on Tuesday for allegedly cheating in the just-concluded Uttar Pradesh police recruitment examination, officials said.
Amitabh Rawat, a former teacher from Madhya Pradesh’s Morena district, was arrested by the Noida unit of Uttar Pradesh Police’s Special Task Force (STF), they said.
According to police, Rawat has been involved in arranging agency candidates, also known as “solvers”, to appear for various government recruitment examinations in Madhya Pradesh since 2013.
He was arrested in 2017 on fraud charges related to the Vyapam recruitment exam and was lodged in a jail in Gwalior district of Madhya Pradesh for five years.
However, he was granted bail in 2020 after appealing to the high court, an Uttar Pradesh police official said.
“Rawat used cheating tactics in multiple recruitment exams in Madhya Pradesh since 2021, including using proxy candidates, bypassing biometric tests, question paper leaks and screen sharing (in online exams),” the official said.
The official added: “Ravat, through his colleagues in Agra (who have been identified), collected fees from several aspirants who appeared for the Uttar Pradesh Police Recruitment Examination to be held on February 17-18 on the pretext that Provide them with question papers before the exam.”
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