The Special Investigation Team (SIT), set up to probe the Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) question paper leak, on Sunday completed the second day of custody of the nine accused for nearly five hours.

Earlier this week, the Begum Bazar police arrested Pulidindi Praveen Kumar, 32, who works as an assistant section officer in TSPSC, along with Atala Raja Shekhar Reddy, 35, for leaking the Assistant Engineer (AE Civil) A network administrator was made in TSPSC to do and steal. ) Take the exam by copying the file from the office computer and sell it to Renuka. After the arrest, Police Commissioner CV Anand handed over the case to the SIT.

SIT chief AR Srinivas interrogated the three accused in the case separately and then together for two hours. Meanwhile, Cyber ​​Crime ACP KVM Prasad examined the contents of the CPU and hard disk recovered from the TSPSC office. Raja Shekhar said that he changed IP addresses, logged into computers and stole question papers and sold them for lakhs of rupees.

It was revealed that Praveen’s friend Renuka, a teacher, and her 38-year-old husband Lavadyavath Dhakya, with the help of Ketavath Srinivas (30), a police constable from Medchal, took the papers and sold them to others, the South-West Zone DCP said. Kiran Khare. The DCP said, “Praveen Kumar and Rajasekhar handed over papers worth Rs 5 lakh on March 2. Thereafter, Rs 5 lakh was handed over to Praveen after the examination was conducted on March 6.