The kingpin not a first-time violator

It is not for the first-time Bedi Lal, the chief traveling ticket examiner with the Northern Eastern Railways has been booked for his role in the paper leakage scam.

It is not for the first-time Bedi Lal, the chief traveling ticket examiner CTTE with the Northern Eastern Railways NER has been booked for his role in the paper leakage scam.

On February 26, 2006, Bedi was arrested by Special Task Force STF along with 15 others for allegedly leaking the question papers of Group G examination of Gorakhpur Railway Recruitment Board. A case was registered against him at Krishnanagar police station and he was sent to jail. While Bedi was released on bail, the case is still pending at a Lucknow court. Though the railways suspended him, it was revoked after he got bail.

Senior Superintendent of Police SSP STF, Amitabh Yash said: 8220;The STF had sent a report to the Income Tax IT Department about the disproportionate assets collected by Bedi against his known source of income then. Another report was sent to the railway authorities too.8221;

8220;We are unaware about the development of inquiry conducted by the IT department and the action initiated by the concerned railway authority,8221; the SSP added.

On the other hand, Senior Divisional Commercial Manager, NER, Indu Dubey, said: 8220;Following his bail, his suspension was revoked and was transferred to Gonda. Later, a departmental inquiry was conducted against him and a major chargesheet was slapped against him about one-and-half months ago.8221;

Dubey added that the railway authorities are waiting for the court8217;s verdict into the criminal charges against him. 8220;Now that Bedi has been arrested again in the same case he would be suspended and a major action would be initiated against him after receiving the police report,8221; Dubey said.

In 2006, when Lal8217;s Gomti Nagar house was raided, the STF had recovered 150 copies of the leaked papers from his possession. 8220;A list containing details of candidates who were given the papers along with their original certificates were also recovered from the house,8221; said Deputy Superintendent of Police, STF, Shahabh Rasheed Khan, who had busted the racket then. Khan also said that Bedi owns a palatial house which costs not less than Rs 50 lakh, a car and two-wheelers. A team of officials from the IT Department had then contacted the STF and had collected details about Lal.