A special investigation team is probing allegations of
corruption in the Delhi police recruitment processes conducted in December last
year.

The alleged scam was unearthed when police personnel conducting the
recruitment processes found three admit cards using the same picture for their
candidature.

The three men, two of them brothers from Gorakhpur in
Uttar Pradesh, are said to have paid Rs27 lakh to take the exam for them, for
Delhi police recruitment. 

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The two are among 24 people who have been arrested for
a fraud carried out in at least three centres.

The accused who have been identified are Pradeep Kumar
(27), Rohit Kumar (22), Sachin Kumar (22), Deepak Kumar (22), Satayveer Singh
(21), Rinku Kumar (19), Rinku Kumar Meena (24), Arvind Kumar (22), Har Prasad
(26), Umesh Kumar Meena (22) and Monu Kumar (20).

The exam for recruitment of constables was held in December
2020. The special investigation team probing the scam has found links in Uttar
Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan so far, and registered 16 FIRs.

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The brothers, Nilesh Kumar Khairwa and Naveen Kumar
Khairwa, and one Satish Kumar were arrested on Wednesday from Jharoda Kalan in
Baba Haridas Nagar in Delhi.

“After scanning their admit cards we found that the same
man appeared for the three and his photo was available in our database. We have
arrested them and are trying to get more details,” a senior police officer told
the Indian Express.

The fraud was exposed when admit cards of the applicants
who had taken the written exam were checked before their physical examination.

This was the first time the applications appearing for the physical exam were
photographed separately, and the anomaly was discovered when the pictures of
applicants appearing for the two exams did not match.