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Case file · MHADA · surfaced 11 Dec 2021

MHADA exam scrapped: vendor's director arrested with the paper

Stalled documented status: Arrests made

Confidence C — based on the press record (archived below). No primary documents on file yet; treat names of agencies, dates and figures as reported, not established.

Days before MHADA's recruitment exams for 565 posts (12–20 December 2021), Pune cyber police arrested the director of the private firm contracted to conduct the exam, with the question paper allegedly in his possession. The exams were cancelled and the firm was blacklisted in March 2022. The same probe led investigators to the Maharashtra TET result-tampering case and the arrest and suspension of the state examination council's commissioner.

Examination
MHADA Recruitment (Groups A-D) 2021
Conducting body
Maharashtra Housing & Area Development Authority (MHADA)
Exam date
12 Dec 2021
Leak date (as documented)
10 Dec 2021
Surfaced
11 Dec 2021
States
Maharashtra
Candidates affected
not established
Leak vector
Insider (digital)
State govt at the time
Shiv Sena–NCP–Congress (MVA)
Last reviewed
11 Jun 2026

Stall clock — no docket movement for

1,561

days (4y 101d) · last movement 2022-03-03

Accountability Gap Index

national average 0.97 / 7 · how this is scored →

1 / 7

  • ✓ FIR within 30 days
  • ✗ Charge sheet within 180 days
  • ✗ Any conviction
  • ✗ Exam cancelled & fully re-held
  • ✗ Fee refund documented
  • ✗ Official permanently removed
  • ✗ Reform gazette-notified

Each milestone scores one point only when the register holds a document for it. The gap is what the missing points describe.

How it surfaced

Who found it

Police tip-off

Pune cyber police, watching a coaching-linked gang since an earlier TET case, intercepted the MHADA paper before exam day; the exam was called off the night before.

The conducting body's first response

Acknowledged it

The housing authority cancelled the exam pre-emptively and scrapped the outsourced exam vendor — whose director was arrested.

The docket

Every legal action on record, in order. Each row cites its document.

  1. 10 Dec 2021

    FIR registered · Pune Police (Cyber)

    FIR in the MHADA paper leak; vendor firm named.

    per: Housing dept blacklists software firm after MHADA question paper leak (The Indian Express, 3 Mar 2022)

  2. 11 Dec 2021

    Arrest · Pune Police

    Director of the exam-conducting firm arrested; exams cancelled.

    per: Housing dept blacklists software firm after MHADA question paper leak (The Indian Express, 3 Mar 2022)

  3. 3 Mar 2022

    Order / direction · Maharashtra Housing Department

    Vendor firm blacklisted by government resolution.

    per: Housing dept blacklists software firm after MHADA question paper leak (The Indian Express, 3 Mar 2022)

What candidates got

Outcome Ordered by Order date Detail
Exam cancelled (full) MHADA 11 Dec 2021 Recruitment exams cancelled before conduct.

Officials & institutions implicated

Recorded at position level. A personal name appears only in the "Named individuals" table below, behind the naming gate.

  • Arrested

    Director, outsourced exam-conducting company · 11 Dec 2021

    The vendor entrusted with end-to-end conduct was itself the leak source; the same firm surfaced in the TET case.

Sources on file

Status log

Every status this register has ever assigned to this case. Append-only.

11 Dec 2021 ALLEGED Allegations surfaced publicly.
10 Dec 2021 ALLEGED → FIR_REGISTERED FIR in the MHADA paper leak; vendor firm named.
11 Dec 2021 FIR_REGISTERED → ARRESTS_MADE Director of the exam-conducting firm arrested; exams cancelled.

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The application below is pre-filled from this case file. Add your name and address, then send it to the Public Information Officer of Pune Police (Cyber) — online via rtionline.gov.in (central bodies) or your state RTI portal. 

To: The Public Information Officer,
Pune Police (Cyber)

Subject: Request under the Right to Information Act, 2005 — MHADA exam scrapped: vendor's director arrested with the paper

Under the Right to Information Act 2005, I request the following information:

1. Current status of FIR No. [number] dated 10 Dec 2021 concerning the question paper leak in MHADA Recruitment (Groups A-D) 2021.
2. Whether a charge sheet has been filed in this matter; if yes, its date and the court where it was filed.
3. Names and current postings of all officials suspended in connection with this matter.
4. Whether any suspended official has been reinstated; if yes, the order reference and date.
5. Date and outcome of the last court hearing in this matter.

I am enclosing the application fee of Rs. 10 as required. If this application falls outside your office's purview, kindly transfer it under Section 6(3) of the Act and inform me.

Regards,
[Applicant name]
[Address]
[Date]
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