PoliticsPhoto: NDTV BusinessPune NCRA Staff Booked for Work Assistant Exam Paper Leak
A staff member of Pune's National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA), Vivek Baban Hadawale, was booked under the Official Secrets Act for allegedly leaking the Work Assistant recruitment exam paper held in May 2025. The complaint was filed by Vaibhav Pandurang Sherkar, a vigilance officer at Mumbai's Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. The leak was reported after a tip-off in June 2026 and involved sharing the paper via WhatsApp a day before the exam.
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