CBI registers FIR against 17 persons in SSC paper lead case

CBI has registered an FIR against 17 persons including ten employees of Sify Technologies Private limited in connection with the leak of paper for Combined graduate level examination of Staff Selection Commission. 

The agency yesterday carried out searches at various premises including four offices of the Sify Technologies Pvt Ltd in Chennai, Noida, Mumbai and New Delhi besides the residence of one of its employees in



Delhi.

It is alleged that the paper of the second tier of the Combined Graduate Level, which took place on 21st February this year and its answer key were allegedly leaked and became viral on social media before the start of the examination. 

CBI has also named seven students in the FIR who had appeared in the examination on the basis of the screenshot of the question paper.