AIIMS nursing officer recruitment exam: CBI arrests alleged mastermind in paper leak

The examination held on June 3 was for recruiting 3,055 nursing officers for all AIIMS institutes in India and some other government hospitals in Delhi.

Navneet, the alleged mastermind of the AIIMS nursing officer recruitment exam paper leak case, was arrested, said the officials.

AIIMS Delhi conducted the nursing officer recruitment examination on June 3, 2023, for recruiting as many as 3,055 nursing officers in all AIIMS across India.

Four other suspects were arrested by the agency after registering an FIR against Mohali-based Gian Jyoti Institute of Management and Technology and a person named Ritu in connection with the leak of the NORCET-4 examination paper. 

On the day of the exam, social media was abuzz with screenshots of the question papers leading to speculations of paper leaks. It was alleged that by the evening of June 5, some tweets were being circulated on social media claiming the purported leakage of the question paper of NORCET-4, as reported by Economic Times.

The allegation also said that the modus-operandi used by the accused was to replace the TFT (computer monitor) assigned to the candidate with a doctored monitor brought into the lab from outside by an accomplice, and after the examination was held, the doctored monitors were allegedly removed from the centre.

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As per reports, after registering the FIR on June 9, the agency had conducted searches at five places in Haryana, Chandigarh, Mohali and Delhi, at the premises of the accused and also at an examination centre in Mohali.

“During searches and investigation, NVR (Network Video Recorder) containing CCTV footage, server laptops, CPUs of identified candidates, various mobile phones and dubious TFTs were recovered,” a CBI spokesperson had said.

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