LUCKNOW, March 15 -- The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) has arrested a man from Agra for cheating candidates by falsely claiming to provide question papers for the Uttar Pradesh Police Sub-Inspector and equivalent recruitment examination 2025. "The accused, identified as Ayush Baghel, a resident of Engineers Colony under the New Agra police station limits, was arrested on March 13 following intelligence inputs gathered during online surveillance by the STF," read a STF press note. Officials said on Saturday that the accused had created multiple channels on the messaging platform Telegram, including "UP SI UP Police-2026", "Result Panel Pvt TM" and "UP SI Exam Paper UP SI-2026", to circulate messages claiming to provide leaked question papers of the written examination scheduled for March 14 and 15. According to STF officials, Baghel and his associates allegedly used edited PDF files resembling question papers to convince aspirants and demanded money in return for providing the "exam papers". Payments were collected through UPI IDs and barcodes shared via the Telegram channels. During interrogation, the accused told investigators that he worked with several associates and used social media to lure candidates preparing for competitive examinations. He allegedly collected lakhs of rupees from aspirants by promising access to question papers and received his share through commission-based transactions, including coupon credits in his online wallet. A mobile phone was recovered from the accused at the time of his arrest. An FIR has been registered at Hussainganj police station in Lucknow under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the Uttar Pradesh Public Examination (Prevention of Unfair Means) Ordinance, 2024, and the IT Act. Further investigation is underway, STF officials said....