The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested 26 railway officers, together with a senior divisional electrical engineer (DEE) of East Central Railway, on costs of leaking papers forward of a departmental examination scheduled for Tuesday. Throughout its raids, the CBI seized ₹1.17 crore money.

East Central Railway had scheduled a Departmental Examination on March 4 for the posts of Chief Loco Inspectors. Throughout the checks carried out by CBI groups at three spots on the intervening night time at Mughal Sarai, which is now often called Deen Dayal Upadhyay Nagar, 17 candidates had been discovered with photocopies of hand-written query papers.

The company mentioned its investigation has revealed that the accused Senior DEE (Operations) was accountable for setting and getting ready the query paper for the examination.

“He in his personal hand-writing had written the questions in English and allegedly gave it to 1 Loco Pilot who in flip translated it into Hindi and additional gave it to an OS (Trg.). The mentioned OS (Trg.) allegedly in flip gave it to the candidates by means of few different Railway Staff,” the company mentioned in an announcement to the media.

The CBI has arrested Sushant Parashar, the Senior DEE (Ops) and 2014 batch IRSE officer, on allegations of accumulating cash and distributing query papers.

As many as 17 departmental candidates presently working as Loco Pilots allegedly paid cash for the query paper and had been caught red-handed with the copies of the query papers through the night time of March 3-March 4, 2025; all of them had been arrested.

General, 26 Railway officers have been arrested on this case to date, the CBI knowledgeable.

Amongst them are Niraj Kumar Verma, Chief Workplace Superintendent, HQ; Raj Narayan Singh Yadav, LPG; Ajit Kumar Singh, Chief Loco Inspector; Anish Kumar, Loco Pilot Shunter, and Suryanath, Loco Pilot Passenger—all of them had been posted to the DDU headquarters of the East Central Railway.

The company has registered the FIR in opposition to a senior divisional electrical engineer (operations) who was accountable for setting and getting ready the query paper for the examination.