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East Central Railway departmental promotion exam 2025 (Chief Loco Pilot)

4 March 2025 Uttar Pradesh East Central Railway / Railway Board

Status

Confirmed

A leak or organised manipulation was established by an official body, a court, or a police investigation.

Candidates affected

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No figure in the source

Arrests

reported at the time

Convictions

—

None recorded here

What happened

CBI arrested 26 ECR officials at Mughal Sarai a day before the chief-loco-pilot departmental exam and seized Rs 1.17 crore; 17 candidates caught with handwritten question-paper photocopies. Railway Board then cancelled pending Group-C departmental selections and shifted all such exams to RRB centralised CBT.

What was done

Arrests / FIR

Official probe — CBI/SIT

Exam cancelled

Source

Primary reference India TV News ↗ https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/railways-ropes-in-rrb-for-all-departmental-exams-after-cbi-arrests-26-officials-in-paper-leak-case-2025-03-05-979280

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What was done

Source

2 other incidents at Indian Railways (RRB / RRC)

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