The searches were conducted in Doda, Reasi, Rajouri, Samba and Udhampur districts at the premises of the accused and others including touts, personnel of Jammu and Kashmir Forest Department, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Indian Air Force and others.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday conducted searches at 37 locations in Jammu and Kashmir into the question paper leak of the Financial Accounts Assistants (FAAs) recruitment exam case.
The case was filed after the strict instruction of Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami who said that those found guilty in the question paper leak case would not be spared and assured rolling out the country's strictest anti-copying law in the state.
Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad arrested one more accused, Sarojkumar Seemanchal Malu of Odisha on Thursday in the Gujarat Panchayat Junior clerk paper leak case.
The bail to the accused Hakam Singh and Sanjeev Chauhan was approved by the Additional District and Sessions Court (Anti-Corruption) Dehradun on January 30.
The Rajasthan Police announced a reward of Rs 1 lakh each for information leading to the arrest of two wanted gangsters and two accused in the Rajasthan paper leak case.
Searches were conducted in Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Uttarakhand, Delhi, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana etc in an ongoing investigation of two cases related to leakage of question papers
Rajasthan CM Gehlot claimed that this is the 17th paper leak case in the state over the past few years and said that the matter has become a serious problem across the country.
Reacting to Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot's "big corona has entered our party" remark, Congress MLA and Sachin Pilot loyalist Ved Prakash Solanki said that "if corona has crept in then vaccination is needed."