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India Today
8 hours ago
- Politics
- India Today
Aadhaar fraud in police constable exam: Munna Bhai-style scam in Madhya Pradesh
The integrity of recruitment exams in Madhya Pradesh has once again come under serious question, as a fresh scandal has emerged in the 2023 MP Police Constable Recruitment a case eerily reminiscent of Bollywood's Munna Bhai, multiple fake candidates, known as "solvers", appeared for the exam on behalf of real applicants, successfully cleared all stages and were on the verge of joining the force when the fraud came to to an investigation by India Today, the malpractice is not isolated to a single district. It spans across multiple areas in the state, prompting a deeper probe into the entire recruitment process conducted by the Madhya Pradesh Employees Selection Board (MPESB). Sources confirm that at least a dozen people have been arrested across three districts, including both the candidates who applied and the impostors who took the exams for may be noted that the recruitment exam was held between August 12 and September 12, 2023 and as many as 7 lakh applicants appeared for 7,090 positions. The written test results were declared in March 2024, followed by final selections made in March 2025 after physical tests. It was during the joining phase that discrepancies in identity verification began to surface. In one such case, Ram Roop Gurjar from Morena arrived at the SP Office in Alirajpur to assume his post. However, the officials became suspicious when his Aadhaar card appeared to have been tampered with and his admit card photo did not match his current appearance. advertisementThe officials ran a fingerprint analysis which confirmed the person who appeared for the exam was not Gurjar, but someone else. Upon questioning, Gurjar confessed that a solver named Amarendra Singh from Bihar had taken the exam for him for Rs 1 lakh. The police have arrested both in the case. Soon more cases started coming to light in other districts as well. In Morena, candidates Radha Charan and Dinesh Singh had similarly manipulated their Aadhaar data, updating biometrics before and after the exam to facilitate identity swaps. In Sheopur district, a larger racket was uncovered with seven arrests, including three selected candidates, namely Sonu Rawat, Santosh Rawat and Aman Singh, and their solvers. Aadhaar agents who enabled biometric alterations were also taken into investigation, authorities discovered that the entire operation followed a disturbingly well-organised and methodical pattern. Solvers would first identify candidates willing to pay for a guaranteed pass. After which, aadhaar biometrics were manipulated through internal system access, swapping fingerprints and facial data. The solvers would then sit for the exams and physical tests. After the process, the candidates' original biometrics were restored to avoid detection during the joining phase. The fraud was exposed only when biometric mismatches occurred at the final verification government has initiated a confidential investigation in the matter. This scandal draws uncomfortable parallels with the infamous Vyapam scam, in which proxy candidates were used in entrance and recruitment exams, leading to national outrage and a series of mysterious inputs from Chandrabhan Bhadauria, Khemraj Dubey and Dushyant
Economic Times
3 days ago
- Business
- Economic Times
Why Sebi short-circuited Munna Bhai's Circuit: Arshad Warsi, wife among 59 banned for role in YouTube stock manipulation scheme
Bollywood meets the boiler room Live Events The script for the scam SEBI's findings and fallout Celebrity in the crosshairs SEBI's action timeline (You can now subscribe to our (You can now subscribe to our ETMarkets WhatsApp channel Munna Bhai's beloved sidekick has run afoul of the law, but this time, it's not on the silver screen. Arshad Warsi , best known for his iconic role as ' Circuit ' in the Munna Bhai films, now finds himself entangled in a very different plot— in a securities scam that played out across YouTube and the Indian stock market. India's markets regulator, Securities and Exchange Board of India SEBI ), on Thursday barred Warsi , his wife Maria Goretti , and 57 others from trading in securities for periods ranging from one to five years, alleging they were part of a pump-and-dump scheme that misled retail investors into buying shares of Sadhna Broadcast Ltd through manipulated online content and coordinated a sweeping crackdown involving 59 individuals and entities, SEBI said the couple participated in a carefully orchestrated campaign to artificially inflate the price of Sadhana Broadcast shares and dump them on unsuspecting retail imposed a penalty of Rs 5 lakh each on the Bollywood couple, while also ordering them to return illicit profits, Rs 41.70 lakh for Warsi and Rs 50.35 lakh for Goretti, made from trading Sadhna Broadcast shares during the manipulation window. In total, SEBI directed 59 entities to jointly disgorge Rs 58.01 crore in unlawful gains, along with 12% annual interest, under a sweeping final order issued May case centers on what SEBI has called a 'carefully structured' two-phase scheme that involved rigging the stock price through circular trading and luring retail investors with viral YouTube videos recommending the to the 109-page order, the operation was orchestrated primarily by Manish Mishra, who controlled five YouTube channels—Moneywise, The Advisor, Profit Yatra, India Bullish, and Midcap Calls—that uploaded promotional videos featuring exaggerated claims and baseless price targets for Sadhna investigation found that the scheme kicked off with structured trades between connected parties to artificially drive up the price of the low-liquidity stock. The trading activity, though small in volume, created the illusion of investor interest and upward the stage was set, the second phase began. Between July and November 2022, a series of videos were uploaded on the Mishra-run channels, touting Sadhna Broadcast as a hidden gem. The videos falsely claimed the company held a 5G license, was being acquired by the Adani Group, had secured a Rs 1,100 crore contract with a U.S. investor to produce devotional films, and had major mutual fund backing. Retail investors, drawn in by the fabricated bullish narrative, poured into the stock just as the operators began to entire operation was amplified through paid marketing campaigns on Google Ads worth over Rs 3.39 crore, funded by Mishra and his associates. The videos garnered millions of views before being marked to the order signed by SEBI Whole-Time Member Ashwani Bhatia, the operation 'revealed a classic pump-and-dump scheme' that involved 'collusive trading, aggressive promotional activity to draw in retail investors, and finally, a coordinated sell-off by the promoters.'Warsi and Goretti purchased shares just days before the first videos went live and offloaded them soon after prices surged. Their trades were matched with accounts of known operators, including Jatin Shah and Angad Rathod, highlighting their integration into the broader traced connections between nearly all 59 noticees through call records, financial transfers, trading behaviour, common addresses, and shared IP logs. Entities were categorized as misleading message disseminators, volume creators, net sellers, and information carriers. Promoter group members and employees of Sadhna Broadcast—now renamed Crystal Business System Ltd—were also found to have actively participated or facilitated the who earned critical and popular acclaim for playing 'Circuit' in Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. and Lage Raho Munna Bhai, now joins the growing list of public figures ensnared in financial investigations involving market manipulation and social media influence. The order against him follows an interim action issued in March 2023 and a detailed investigation spanning trades from March to November addition to the couple's one-year market ban, SEBI handed longer debarments—up to five years—to others deemed central to the scheme. These include Gaurav Gupta, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, and Mishra himself, along with broker-linked entities and shell companies used to circulate trades and book final order follows an investigation period spanning March 8 to November 30, 2022. SEBI launched its inquiry after receiving complaints between July and September 2022 that alleged 'price manipulation and subsequent offloading of shares' in Sadhana Broadcast. The complaints also claimed misleading YouTube content was part of a paid marketing campaign aimed at retail interim order was issued on March 2, 2023, against 31 entities, including the company's promoters. This week's final ruling expands enforcement action to 59 most entities faced monetary penalties, SEBI exempted Varun Media Pvt Ltd—a promoter group entity currently undergoing insolvency proceedings—from any financial penalty. However, it clarified that the disgorgement order would remain applicable and further action would be addressed through a separate case stresses on SEBI's sharpened focus over the intersection of social media and securities fraud. By targeting a celebrity and leveraging YouTube influencers, the operation capitalized on the retail boom in India's stock markets and the growing clout of online financial content creators.: Recommendations, suggestions, views and opinions given by the experts are their own. These do not represent the views of Economic Times)
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First Post
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- First Post
From claims of drinking his urine to quitting 'Hera Pheri 3'- Paresh Rawal's most shocking controversies
Paresh Rawal has revealed in an interview with The Lallantop how Ajay Devgn's father Veeru Devgan asked him to drink his urine for 15 days when he was injured. read more Paresh Rawal completes 40 years in Indian cinema this year. But he has had his share of controversies despite being a fine talent. Here are the instances when he made headlines for all the wrong reasons: Drinking his urine Paresh Rawal has revealed in an interview with The Lallantop how Ajay Devgn's father Veeru Devgan asked him to drink his urine for 15 days when he was injured. The actor said, 'I did this for 15 days. 15 days later when the doctor took my X-ray, he was shocked. The doctor asked me, 'How did this cementing happen?' He could see a white line forming. I was supposed to be discharged in 2-2.5 months, but I was discharged in 1.5 months. It was like magic.' STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD Rejecting Munna Bhai MBBS Paresh also shared his strained equation with Vidhu Vinod Chopra, which also made him reject Munna Bhai MBBS ' role of Dr Asthana (later played by Boman Irani) due to the producer's arrogance. 'He started ignoring the people he began his career with after achieving success," Paresh shared, adding, 'I was supposed to do Munna Bhai. We were discussing remuneration. In my mind, I wanted ₹15 lakh, and coincidentally, Vidhu offered exactly that. But the way he said, 'I'll give you ₹15 lakh' — with arrogance — irked me. So, out of principle, I demanded ₹50 lakh and refused to back down." Walking out of Hera Pheri 3 Paresh Rawal's sudden exit from Akshay Kumar and Suniel Shetty starrer Hera Pheri 3 was a huge shocker and disappointment for fans as well as for the fraternity. While there were reports that Akshay Kumar's Cape of Good Films, the producer of Hera Pheri 3, sued the actor for Rs. 25 crores for his unprofessionalism, the latest report says that Rawal has returned Rs 11 lakhs to the producers with 15% interest. ' Paresh Rawal has returned the signing amount of Rs 11 lakhs with 15% p.a. interest and also a little more money for stepping away from the series,' said a source to Bollywood Hungama.
India.com
24-04-2025
- India.com
UP Board Result 2025: UPMSP Board Class 10th, 12th Results To Be Released Today At upresults.nic.in- Here's How To Check
UP Board Result 2025: The Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad (UPMSP) will announce the Class 10 and Class 12 board exam results for 2025 on Friday, April 25, at 12:30 PM. The results will be released at a press conference held at the board's headquarters in Prayagraj. Once the results are declared, students can download their scorecards from the official UPMSP website at They can also check their results on DigiLocker at Along with the results, the board will also share important details like the pass percentage, list of toppers, total number of students who passed, and more. This year, a total of 54,37,233 students were eligible to take the UP Board Exam 2025, which was conducted at 8,140 centres from February 24 to March 12, 2025. The evaluation of answer sheets took place at 261 centres across the state between March 19 and April 2, 2025. The board followed strict guidelines to ensure the evaluation process was accurate and error-free. For the first time, the UP Board will issue Class 10 and 12 marksheets and certificates through DigiLocker. According to Board Secretary Bhagwati Singh, these documents will be digitally signed, verified, and include a QR code to ensure authenticity. Students can access them by creating an account and logging in at UP Board Result 2025: Here's how to check Go to the official UP Board results website at Click on the results link on the homepage. A new page will appear—select either the UP Board Class 10 or Class 12 result link. Enter your login details and click on submit. Your result will appear on the screen. Review your result and download the page. Make sure to keep a printed copy for future reference. In a strict action against malpractice, 49 impersonators (Munna Bhai) were caught trying to take exams on behalf of real candidates. Additionally, 30 students were caught cheating, and two cases of answer writing outside exam centres were reported and addressed. Notably, no incidents of wrong paper openings occurred, and no paper leaks were reported anywhere in the state, highlighting a secure exam process under Secretary Bhagwati Singh's leadership.
Indian Express
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Rajkumar Hirani turned Sanju into a ‘caricature': Priya Dutt recalls complaining to Sanjay Dutt, admits she was ‘tempted' to call director
Former politician Priya Dutt, the daughter of late actors Sunil Dutt and Nargis, spoke about her brother Sanjay Dutt's biopic Sanju, directed by Rajkumar Hirani. She admitted in an interview that she wasn't particularly impressed by it, and was underwhelmed by its depiction of her parents. She was also confused about why Hirani gave so much importance to Vicky Kaushal's character, who she said was a composite of many different people. Priya acknowledged Ranbir Kapoor's central performance, but described the film itself as a 'caricature'. In an interview with Vickey Lalwani, she agreed that her mother had very little to do in the movie, and that one scene doesn't do her contributions to Sanjay's life justice. 'I also felt that the film didn't do justice to both my mom and my father. There was a lot that could've worked; there was a lot. Even the relationship between the father and the son, a lot (more) could have been done,' she said. Asked if she ever felt like picking up the phone and calling Hirani with her complaints, Priya said, 'I was (tempted to), but I think they had a different concept in mind. Their focus was just Sanju, which I get, but it became a bit of a caricature.' Priya laughed when the topic of Vicky Kaushal's character came up, and said that it was amalgamation of several different friends in Sanjay's life. Asked if she shared her honest feedback with Sanjay, she said, 'Yes, I did. I said, 'It's not what I expected it to be'.' According to Priya, Sanjay seemed to want to let it go. She also revealed that he wasn't consulted at every stage of production. 'I loved Ranbir in it, I thought he played the part very well. But it was just an entertaining film, nothing like a biopic. The intensity was missing.' That being said, Priya said that her favourite film of Sanjay's career is the first Munna Bhai, directed by Hirani. The film initiated a comeback for the actor after a period of great difficulty. She said that she was on set the first day of production, when a scene featuring both Sanjay and their father was being shot. Before Animal, Sanju was the highest-grossing film of Ranbir Kapoor's career; it made over Rs 500 crore worldwide. Hirani last directed the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Dunki, which under-performed at the box office and earned mixed reviews.
