Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Patna Zonal Office has conducted search
operations on 19.06.2025 at 11 locations in Patna, Nalanda, Ranchi, Lucknow and Kolkata
in Bihar Constable Recruitment Scam of 2023. During these searches several incriminating
material, documents and digital devices have been found and seized.
In this instant case, as per the FIR No. 16/2023 dated 31.10.2023 registered by
Economic Offence Unit (EOU), Patna and the subsequent Chargesheet dated 22.08.2024,
the Central Selection Board of Constable, which conducted the Bihar Constable
Recruitment of 2023, awarded the question paper printing contract to M/s Caltex
Multiventures Pvt. Ltd., a company formed in 2021 that reportedly lacked prior experience
or its own printing press. This company had an undisclosed agreement with M/s Blessing
Secured Press Pvt. Ltd., whose director, Kaushik Kumar Kar, was blacklisted due to
involvement in previous paper leak cases. Kaushik Kumar Kar helped incorporating a new
company M/s Caltex Multiventures Pvt. Ltd. and used close associates to secure the tender
indirectly. Sanjeev Mukhiya, a habitual offender involved in several paper leak cases, and
his gang reportedly gathered information about the printing press, warehouse, and
transportation vehicles. Question papers were then removed from sealed boxes during
transit from the warehouse to examination centres and sold via social media.
During the searches, incriminating documents have been found at several spots like
handwritten candidates lists with OMR Nos of their answer sheets, fake degree certificates,
documents of several candidates, blank cheques seemingly submitted by candidates,
handwritten questions with candidate lists etc.
