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How Aadhaar fudging aided MP cop recruitment scam

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June 09, 2025

PALIGANJ town — 50 km from the Bihar capital — is in news nearly a thousand km away in Madhya Pradesh, thanks to one of its government school teachers, who has emerged as the key solver of an inter-state Aadhaar ID manipulation-enabled examination racket, which helped candidates from the Gwalior-Chambal region crack the 2023 MP Police Constable Recruitment Exam.

- ANURAAG SINGH @ Bhopal

Ranjan Kumar Gupta, a school teacher from Paliganj appeared in place of ten candidates, including one of the merit holders of the exam who secured 87 out of 100 marks.

Besides Gupta, who is now in police custody in MP's Sheopur district, at least five more solvers from the same eastern state also appeared through the same modus operandi for dozens of other candidates in MP, in return for ₹1 lakh to ₹4 lakh subject to passing of the candidate.

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