Jaipur: The Special Operations Group (SOG) Friday re-arrested Dalu Ram Meena, the first trainee sub-inspector (SI) held in the 2021 SI paper leak case, along with his wife, Mausam, in connection with the senior teacher exam 2022 cheating racket.DIG SOG Paris Deshmukh said that Mausam, a grade III teacher, impersonated Rekha — the wife of Meena’s brother — and appeared as a dummy candidate in the exam. “We also suspect that Rekha may have entered govt service through unfair means. A separate probe will examine her role,” Deshmukh said, adding that Rekha cleared the exam but did not join service and is yet to be arrested.The high court Thursday ordered the cancellation of the sub-inspector (SI) 2021 exam. Meena, a native of Mahwa in Dausa district, was first arrested on February 2, 2024, while under training at the Rajasthan Police Academy after securing rank 1,402 in the tainted SI exam. His interrogation later cracked open the conspiracy behind the SI recruitment scam, leading to the arrest of mafias including Harsh Vardhan Meena, Jagdish Bishnoi, and Bhupendra Saran.According to officials, Meena earlier worked as a patwari in the revenue department from 2014 and is believed to have cleared the SI exam using a dummy candidate identified as Harchand alias Harish.The sources said that several close relatives and other family members of Meena are also in govt services. “The accused was initially arrested in the SI exam, but when we learnt that he also helped get his sister-in-law a govt job by asking his wife to appear as a dummy candidate, we arrested him (Meena) and his wife,” said an official.Earlier, during interrogation, Meena had told police that if he said too much, a ‘Harshvardhan Meena’ would harm him. ADG (SOG), VK Singh, said, “He kept repeating that ‘Harsh boss will not spare me.’ So we rounded up Harsh.”Harsh’s confession stunned investigators. The size of the leak and the machinery behind it was bigger than they had imagined. Acting on his tip-offs, SOG grilled Jagdish Bishnoi, a notorious exam mafia kingpin.
1st SI trainee held in 2021 paper leak case re-arrested with wife | Jaipur News
