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Pune: Shivajinagar police on Friday registered a case against five people for their alleged involvement in malpractice during the junior engineer (civil), class 3 exam conducted for Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) in April 2026.
Nair said that the scores of three candidates have been declared non-genuine and their candidature has been cancelled. The appointment orders for all other candidates are being issued, he said. The entire exam was conducted in online format. PMC had declared the results of the exam in June. However, after receiving inputs on the alleged malpractice and misconduct, the administration carried out detailed checks by appointing three agencies. Based on the observations, three candidates who appeared for exams were found with suspicious behaviour at the exam centre along with two employees appointed at the centre. Two functionaries at the exam centre whose movements coincided with the candiates have been removed from their deployment and their resouce IDs blocked from all future assessments.
Prima facie, the data by agencies rules out any leak of the question paper before exam. It appears that three candidates were involved in unfair means at the candidate level at exam centre.