Three months after Staff Selection Commission aspirants protested in Delhi and across the country over the alleged leakage of question papers of Combined Graduate Level Tier-II examinations held between 17-22 February 2018, the Central Bureau of Investigation on May 23 registered an FIR against 18 people. While the CBI conceded that the question papers were indeed leaked, it named seven students, an official Sant Prasad Gupta from Sify Technologies (the vendor responsible for conducting SSC exams), unnamed SSC officials and some invigilators at the exam centres, among other unknown people.
“It’s nothing but a sham and a diversion to quash the protests,” alleged Anupam of Swaraj India, who has been at the forefront of the protests in the…