The company contracted to conduct the police recruitment (constabulary) examination in Uttar Pradesh in February this year, has been blacklisted by the state’s Yogi government in yet another fresh incident of paper leak.
The Ahmedabad-based company that goes by the name, Edutest Solutions Pvt. Ltd, has been found involved in the scam as per preliminary investigations.
The paper was reportedly leaked first from a godown in Ahmedabad that belonged to TCI Express Transport company, though the police haven’t been able to establish any link between the transport company and the paper leak.
After claims of leaked question papers, the UP police test was called off. Aiming for one of the 60,244 policeman posts, almost 4.8 million hopefuls had showed up for the test.
Meanwhile, fearing action, the managing director of the company Vineet Arya has reportedly fled to the US. He was served four summons by the UP police SIT but he never responded or appeared before it for probe.
Though Edutest has been blacklisted in UP and this action essentially forbids the company from conducting any upcoming recruitment tests for state government organisations, it must be noted that the same company was blacklisted after paper leak in Bihar in a similar exam in October 2023. Such allegations have come against the company from Rajasthan and Uttarakhand as well. How the same company again got the contract for conducting exam in UP raises questions.
Not only that, it is reported that the same company also got contract for conducting the CSIR exam in November the same year, just a month after being blacklisted by Bihar. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), a Central government entity, has clear rule that a blacklisted company can’t participate in the bidding. How the company did the same is again questionable.
Surprisingly, it has come to the fore that amid all these, the company’s name was changed from Confisec Private Limited to Edutest, purportedly to evade legal implications.
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