Itanagar: The Court of Special Judge, CBI Cases, Yupia is expected to take cognizance of the complaint (charge sheet) filed by the CBI against Taket Jerang and seven others in the APPSC conducted assistant engineer (civil) examination question paper leak.
The matter is listed for a hearing before the court on Wednesday.
A source familiar with the probe said, once the court takes cognizance of the complaints, it would send out judicial notices to all the accused and call them for an appearance.
“In the present case where all the accused are in judicial custody, notices are normally sent to the jail authorities to present them (accused) before the court on a given date. In simple terms, the actual trial in the case would begin once the court takes cognizance of the charge sheet which is expected to happen tomorrow,” the source said.
The CBI had filed the charge sheet against eight accused namely Taket Jerang, Thomas Gaduk, Akhilesh Yadav, Tanyang Gaduk, Tama Saroh, Binam Jomang, Talung Jomang and Loth Ezing on December 8 last.
Jerang, the deputy secretary of Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC), along with Tanyang Gaduk, the father of Thomas Gaduk, and Tama Saroh, the middleman, were arrested by the police on September 16 for their alleged involvement in the paper leak case.
Thomas Gaduk, a candidate for the assistant engineer (civil) examination and Yadav, a coaching institute teacher, were arrested by the police on September 11.
Binam Jomang, a junior engineer (contractual) in the Panchayati Raj Department, Talung an agriculture field assistant and Loth Ezing, a civilian, were arrested by the Special Investigation Cell (SIC) of the state police on October 3.
The question paper leak incident came to light after one Gyamar Padung, a candidate of the APPSC assistant engineer (civil) examination himself, filed a police complaint before the Itanagar police station on August 29 claiming that he suspected that the examination paper had been leaked.
The case was initially investigated by the Capital police and later transferred to the Special Investigation Cell (SIC) of the state police.
The CBI had taken over the investigation on October 26 on the recommendation of the state government and later conducted searches at around 16 different places in Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh in November.
The searches had resulted in a recovery of incriminating documents/articles including fake/counterfeit stamps of the executive magistrate of Arunachal Pradesh, executive engineer, State Bank of India, hard discs, pen drives, etc.
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