What happened
On April 11, 2026, Ranchi police raided an under-construction building in Tamar at midnight and found 164 people gathered quietly in the dark: 159 aspiring excise constables and 5 members of a professional inter-state solver gang. The gang — with confirmed links to the NEET scam and recruitment fraud networks in Rajasthan and Bihar — had charged candidates up to Rs 15 lakh to either sit the exam for them or supply the actual question papers hours before the exam started. Question papers were recovered in both printed and digital formats. The mathematical absurdity the police report glossed over: a Jharkhand excise constable earns roughly Rs 25,000 a month, meaning candidates had pre-paid nearly five years of salary to acquire a job they had not yet secured. The JSSC cancelled the exam. A chargesheet is pending.