DEHRADUN: A former chef, bus operator, auto rickshaw driver, factory worker and a current teacher have emerged as key members of a group that carried out one of the scams. the largest island that rocked Uttarakhand, worth around Rs 200 – – leaked paper by Uttarakhand’s Lower Service Selection Committee (UKSSSC).
The spread of corruption has led many to compare it to the ‘Vyapam’ case in Madhya Pradesh of 2013, perhaps one of the biggest entrance-checking scandals to hit the country.
Authorities up to Friday arrested 32 people in the case, they showed leaked papers were sold to more than 200 candidates for Rs 10-15 each. A copy of the newspaper is said to have been leaked by the owner and an employee of a private technology solutions company based in Lucknow, with which the government severed ties after the incident was reported. expose.
The “mastermind” of the scam has been identified as Hakam Singh, his close aide and member of the UP-based fraud mafia group Kendrapal, Chandan Manral, Manoj Joshi, and Jagdish Goswami. Most of them are said to have built properties worth at least Rs 50 each with unknown assets. They are said to have been in this business for the past 10 years.
Hakam, one of the main accused, is from Uttarkashi district and was the 18th person arrested by the STF on August 14. He was previously a member of the Uttarkashi zila panchayat and a leader of the BJP holding rights before being expelled by the party after being arrested.
An undercover STF officer in the investigation revealed that Hakam was the chef of the former Uttarkashi District Judge (DM) in 2002. During his tenure, he became a “close employee” of the DM. , who brought him to Haridwar district, where he was later posted.
“He met a number of politicians and gradually entered politics while staying in Haridwar. Before becoming a member of Uttarkashi zila panchayat, Hakam was the head of Liwari village in Uttarkashi from 2008-2013. While living in the holy town, he met UP-based fraud mafia and one of the arrested accused, Kendrapal, in 2011. With his help, he started leaking questionnaires of various competitive exams for the candidate with the huge amount of money he has built up assets worth crores,” said the official.
It was Hakam renting a house in Dhampur, UP where he allegedly took UKSSSC candidates the day before the exam and helped them solve the leaked question for Rs 15 lakh each.
Like him, Kendrapal, an alleged member of the UP-based fraudulent mafia, has written his own riches story by leaking papers to candidates competing in various exams in Uttarakhand as well as UP. A resident of Dhampur, UP, he was the 24th person arrested by the STF from Bijnor on August 26.
According to an STF officer who did not wish to be named, it was Kendrapal who brought Hakam into the mafia ring of fraud after being introduced to him in 2011 in Haridwar through a labor contractor.
Kendrapal started his journey as an auto rickshaw driver in 1996. He then worked at a ready-to-wear shop in Dhampur and later started his own fabric supply business. before being accused of joining the mafia in 2011.
Investigators have detailed several of his properties to date, including 3.3 acres of land and a luxury mansion in Dhampur, along with a partnership in a resort with Hakam in Uttarkashi.
Kendrapal allegedly got involved with another arrested defendant, Chandan Manral, whom he met in 2012.
Manral, a resident of Ramnagar, Nainital district, is the 21st person to be arrested by the STF on August 20. Out of all the aforementioned defendants, he is said to be the biggest asset builder of all. They are worth at least Rs 100 crore.
Manral started his journey as a bus driver on the Betalghat-Ramnagar route about 30 years ago. He later bought his own bus by raising money from his friends and relatives and founded a transportation company in the Kumaon region, before adding 19 more buses in the following years.
After being accused of joining the fraudulent mafia after meeting Kendrapal, his fortune multiplied, and he started a stone crushing plant spread over an area of about 25 acres. He has rented about 30 multi-utility vehicles to various government agencies through his transportation agency.
Kendrapal allegedly had an affair with another person in 2019, arrested on charges of Jagdish Goswami, after meeting him at a temple in Uttarakhand.
A resident of Almora, Goswami was the 22nd person arrested in the case on August 21. He was working as a public school teacher in Bageshwar district at the time of his arrest.
He is the son of one of the most famous folk singers of Uttarakhand, Gopal Babu Goswamiwho has worked in Bollywood movies like Kareena Kapoor starred in ‘Jab We Met’.
He allegedly gathered exam candidates from his area and took them to rented accommodation in Dhampur to help them deal with leaked questions.
Another defendant in the case is Manoj Joshi, a resident of Almora district who is believed to be among the first six people arrested by the STF in the case on July 24. Joshi, a Prantiya point of view Rakshak Dal (PRD), was a former UKSSSC employee in Dehradun before being terminated in 2018 due to “departmental differences”.
Joshi had previously worked at a factory in Lucknow for 12 years before being recruited into PRD and deployed at UKSSSC.
STF officials say that Joshi, with question documents leaked from the accused employees of the Lucknow-based private technology solutions company, helped five members of his family. get a job in the government.
Ajai Singh, SSP STF, who is directing the ongoing investigation, confirmed the defendant’s assets and said that the agency has notified the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) to investigate.
“They were looking for details about the incident that we gave them. They will find out more information. Meanwhile, we will also place those charged under the Gangsters Act and attach their assets built with the proceeds of this crime,” he said.
The spread of corruption has led many to compare it to the ‘Vyapam’ case in Madhya Pradesh of 2013, perhaps one of the biggest entrance-checking scandals to hit the country.
Authorities up to Friday arrested 32 people in the case, they showed leaked papers were sold to more than 200 candidates for Rs 10-15 each. A copy of the newspaper is said to have been leaked by the owner and an employee of a private technology solutions company based in Lucknow, with which the government severed ties after the incident was reported. expose.
The “mastermind” of the scam has been identified as Hakam Singh, his close aide and member of the UP-based fraud mafia group Kendrapal, Chandan Manral, Manoj Joshi, and Jagdish Goswami. Most of them are said to have built properties worth at least Rs 50 each with unknown assets. They are said to have been in this business for the past 10 years.
Hakam, one of the main accused, is from Uttarkashi district and was the 18th person arrested by the STF on August 14. He was previously a member of the Uttarkashi zila panchayat and a leader of the BJP holding rights before being expelled by the party after being arrested.
An undercover STF officer in the investigation revealed that Hakam was the chef of the former Uttarkashi District Judge (DM) in 2002. During his tenure, he became a “close employee” of the DM. , who brought him to Haridwar district, where he was later posted.
“He met a number of politicians and gradually entered politics while staying in Haridwar. Before becoming a member of Uttarkashi zila panchayat, Hakam was the head of Liwari village in Uttarkashi from 2008-2013. While living in the holy town, he met UP-based fraud mafia and one of the arrested accused, Kendrapal, in 2011. With his help, he started leaking questionnaires of various competitive exams for the candidate with the huge amount of money he has built up assets worth crores,” said the official.
It was Hakam renting a house in Dhampur, UP where he allegedly took UKSSSC candidates the day before the exam and helped them solve the leaked question for Rs 15 lakh each.
Like him, Kendrapal, an alleged member of the UP-based fraudulent mafia, has written his own riches story by leaking papers to candidates competing in various exams in Uttarakhand as well as UP. A resident of Dhampur, UP, he was the 24th person arrested by the STF from Bijnor on August 26.
According to an STF officer who did not wish to be named, it was Kendrapal who brought Hakam into the mafia ring of fraud after being introduced to him in 2011 in Haridwar through a labor contractor.
Kendrapal started his journey as an auto rickshaw driver in 1996. He then worked at a ready-to-wear shop in Dhampur and later started his own fabric supply business. before being accused of joining the mafia in 2011.
Investigators have detailed several of his properties to date, including 3.3 acres of land and a luxury mansion in Dhampur, along with a partnership in a resort with Hakam in Uttarkashi.
Kendrapal allegedly got involved with another arrested defendant, Chandan Manral, whom he met in 2012.
Manral, a resident of Ramnagar, Nainital district, is the 21st person to be arrested by the STF on August 20. Out of all the aforementioned defendants, he is said to be the biggest asset builder of all. They are worth at least Rs 100 crore.
Manral started his journey as a bus driver on the Betalghat-Ramnagar route about 30 years ago. He later bought his own bus by raising money from his friends and relatives and founded a transportation company in the Kumaon region, before adding 19 more buses in the following years.
After being accused of joining the fraudulent mafia after meeting Kendrapal, his fortune multiplied, and he started a stone crushing plant spread over an area of about 25 acres. He has rented about 30 multi-utility vehicles to various government agencies through his transportation agency.
Kendrapal allegedly had an affair with another person in 2019, arrested on charges of Jagdish Goswami, after meeting him at a temple in Uttarakhand.
A resident of Almora, Goswami was the 22nd person arrested in the case on August 21. He was working as a public school teacher in Bageshwar district at the time of his arrest.
He is the son of one of the most famous folk singers of Uttarakhand, Gopal Babu Goswamiwho has worked in Bollywood movies like Kareena Kapoor starred in ‘Jab We Met’.
He allegedly gathered exam candidates from his area and took them to rented accommodation in Dhampur to help them deal with leaked questions.
Another defendant in the case is Manoj Joshi, a resident of Almora district who is believed to be among the first six people arrested by the STF in the case on July 24. Joshi, a Prantiya point of view Rakshak Dal (PRD), was a former UKSSSC employee in Dehradun before being terminated in 2018 due to “departmental differences”.
Joshi had previously worked at a factory in Lucknow for 12 years before being recruited into PRD and deployed at UKSSSC.
STF officials say that Joshi, with question documents leaked from the accused employees of the Lucknow-based private technology solutions company, helped five members of his family. get a job in the government.
Ajai Singh, SSP STF, who is directing the ongoing investigation, confirmed the defendant’s assets and said that the agency has notified the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) to investigate.
“They were looking for details about the incident that we gave them. They will find out more information. Meanwhile, we will also place those charged under the Gangsters Act and attach their assets built with the proceeds of this crime,” he said.
