Hyderabad, March 14 : The Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) has scheduled an emergency meeting for Tuesday to discuss the possibility of cancelling the recruitment examination for the posts of Assistant Engineers in various departments due to a question paper leak.

Recently, the Hyderabad Police arrested nine individuals, including two TSPSC employees and a police constable, in connection with the exam paper leak case. The Commission will take a decision on the matter based on the report submitted by the police regarding their investigations into the incident.

On March 5, the TSPSC conducted an examination for the recruitment of Assistant Engineer, Municipal Assistant Engineer, Technical Officer, and Junior Technical Officer in various engineering departments. A total of 55,000 candidates had appeared for the exam, which was held to fill 833 vacancies in these positions.

As the two employees TSPSC allegedly copied folders containing question papers of various exams from computers in the confidential section, the Commission already postponed the recruitment examinations to the posts of Town Planning Building Overseer scheduled on March 12 and Veterinary Assistant Surgeon scheduled to be held on March 15 and 16.