Case file · RPSC · surfaced 24 Dec 2022

RPSC senior teacher exam: 40+ caught solving leaked paper in a moving bus

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.

On the morning of 24 December 2022, Udaipur police stopped a bus and found about 40 people — including dummy candidates and several teachers — solving the leaked General Knowledge paper of RPSC's senior teacher recruitment. Candidates had reportedly paid Rs 5–8 lakh each to a Jodhpur-based gang. RPSC cancelled that morning's GK paper (nearly 4 lakh applicants); ATS and SOG took up the probe, which expanded through 2023 with further arrests. It was counted as the ninth leak-hit RPSC exam in recent years.

Examination: Senior Teacher Grade-II Recruitment 2022
Conducting body: Rajasthan Public Service Commission (RPSC)
Exam date: 24 Dec 2022
Leak date (as documented): 23 Dec 2022
Surfaced: 24 Dec 2022
States: Rajasthan
Candidates affected: ~4.0 lakh
Leak vector: Coaching nexus
State govt at the time: Congress
Last reviewed: 11 Jun 2026

Stall clock — no docket movement for

1,265

days (3y 170d) · last movement 2022-12-24

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 interception

Rajasthan Police stopped a bus in Udaipur on exam morning carrying 40+ candidates solving the actual GK paper; the paper had been sold for Rs 5–10 lakh.

The conducting body's first response

Acknowledged it

RPSC cancelled the day's GK paper and re-held it; an RPSC member was later arrested in the wider network, the first time a sitting member of the commission was taken into custody.

The docket

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

24 Dec 2022

Arrest · Udaipur Police / Rajasthan SOG

About 40 occupants of a bus caught solving the paper before the exam; dummy candidates among them.

per: Rajasthan PSC paper leak: 40 caught writing answers in bus before exam (The New Indian Express, 24 Dec 2022)
24 Dec 2022

Exam cancelled · RPSC / Government of Rajasthan

General Knowledge paper of 24.12.2022 (9-11 am) cancelled; other papers proceeded.

per: Exam for teachers' recruitment in Rajasthan cancelled after paper leak (India Today, 24 Dec 2022)
24 Dec 2022

FIR registered · ATS / SOG, Rajasthan Police

Case against the gang; Rs 5-8 lakh per candidate reportedly charged.

per: Rajasthan PSC paper leak: 40 caught writing answers in bus before exam (The New Indian Express, 24 Dec 2022)

What candidates got

Outcome	Ordered by	Order date	Detail
Exam cancelled (partial)	RPSC	24 Dec 2022	Cancelled GK paper re-conducted later (2023).

Officials & institutions implicated

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

Arrested

Member, Rajasthan Public Service Commission · 19 Jun 2023

Arrested by SOG/ED stream of the senior teacher leak network; dismissed from the commission thereafter.

After the suspension

Suspension is where most coverage ends. This is what the record says happened next — tracking rules →

⚑ Member, RPSC

Termination pending · 20 Jan 2024

Suspended by the Governor in January 2024, nine months after his arrest by the SOG; the proposal for his removal went for presidential assent and was still pending when filed before the Supreme Court in July 2025. He remained a suspended member, not a dismissed one.

per: Suspension order Jan 2024; Union submission to SC, Jul 2025

⚑ marks an official who returned to, or never left, the ministry whose exam leaked.

The investigation trail

Every SIT, committee and inquiry announced for this case — and whether its report ever became public.

SOG probe (Udaipur FIR cluster)

Formed 24 Dec 2022 · by Government of Rajasthan

Report status: not made public · 1,265 days elapsed

Over 60 arrests including an RPSC member; findings public only through charge sheets.

Sources on file

Tier 2 · reported Rajasthan PSC paper leak: 40 caught writing answers in bus before exam — The New Indian Express · 24 Dec 2022 [archived]
Tier 2 · reported Exam for teachers' recruitment in Rajasthan cancelled after paper leak — India Today · 24 Dec 2022 [archived]

Status log

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

24 Dec 2022	ALLEGED	Allegations surfaced publicly.
24 Dec 2022	ALLEGED → ARRESTS_MADE	About 40 occupants of a bus caught solving the paper before the exam; dummy candidates among them.

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To: The Public Information Officer,
ATS / SOG, Rajasthan Police

Subject: Request under the Right to Information Act, 2005 — RPSC senior teacher exam: 40+ caught solving leaked paper in a moving bus

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

1. Current status of FIR No. [number] dated 24 Dec 2022 concerning the question paper leak in Senior Teacher Grade-II Recruitment 2022.
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.

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