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Army paper leak: 350 candidates to be debarred from all army exams

The list of candidates which will be provided by the Thane City police department to the Indian Army Recruitment Board will debar them from all the exams conducted for the Army.

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The dreams of a 20-year-old Haryana resident crashed after he was caught, along with two of his brothers, at a Pune hall by the Thane Crime Branch while writing the answers to leaked question papers of the army recruitment exams. The three youths wanted to make their family proud by being army men. Their forefathers were in the army and they wanted to continue the family legacy. The 350 students caught cheating will be debarred by the Indian Army to appear from all their competitive exams.

The Thane police department has the original documents of the candidates, which were found in the place of raid. Candidates from Haryana, Goa, Pune, Satara and various other states and cities were appearing for the exams. These candidates lined up outside the Thane Crime Branch Unit I to collect the documents so that they could leave for their hometowns.

"My family has asked me to not return back home until I have the original documents but I am fortunate that we did not pay even a single penny to the agents", said a 26-year-old resident of Jalgaon. "We are sleeping at railway station and in the police ground as we have to also give our statements and prove that the domicile certificates we submitted to the army were not fake", said the candidate.

But for the three brothers from Haryana, the crackdown by Thane police has snatched away their dreams to continue the legacy of the forefathers. "My entire family is in the army and it continued from my forefathers and since several generations we continue to serve the army. But with this incident we have to face the blot back home and we are not able to face our families because after appearing for exams twice we lost hopes. We  came across the coaching centre for written exams and this now has become our life's biggest problem", said Ranveer Singh Dahiya, a resident of Haryana.

A spokesperson from Army Southern Command in Pune confirmed that the students who were caught by the police would not be allowed to appear in any exams. "The investigation is being carried out and the Delhi Headquarters has initiated the procedures against the tainted officers," said a spokesperson. 

The Thane Crime Branch arrested 21 persons in a raid conducted at Nagpur, Pune and Goa and the roles of three army clerks came to light after the ex servicemen running the recruitment and career academies revealed the initial paper leak from the Nagpur Army Recruitment Office.

Parag Manere, Deputy Commissioner, Thane Crime Branch said, "Our teams have reached Nagpur and will take the army persons into custody and will be brought for interrogations."

"Their interrogation can lead to revelation of other paper leaks they have been involved into", said Manere.

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