vijayawada rashtriya ispat nigam ltd which owns and operates the visakhapatnam steel plant friday denied that its online test paper for recruiting junior trainee and ocm posts had been leaked the test had been conducted on 78 september at 142 venues in 30 citiesrinl was also in receipt of emails on 10 september with allegation of paper leakage in jt online test enclosing the screenshots of the question paper from an exam screenrinl management viewed the issue seriously and ordered a thorough enquiry into the matteron verification it was found that the screenshot belongs to sri srikanth dasari regd no rinl 19116241 who appeared for the online test at vivekananda institute of technology and science karimnagar telangana for junior traineemechanical discipline on 8 september in the morning session an rinl press release said on fridayit said the test conducting agency was asked to investigate the issue and submit a detailed report on the allegation the agency through internal process analysis and verification of the cctv footage of the lab in which the candidate had taken the test suspected that the candidate had used a high end sophisticated devicecamera embedded in a penpendent worn by the candidate the release saidthe candidate checking process was done by physical frisking and a handheld metal detector and hence the candidate was not in a possession of mobile phone during the examas per cctv footage candidate has not received external help through any communication devise or through any test administrators in the exam hall the release saidaccording to the release the candidate had uploaded the screen shots of the examination in social media 48 hours after the last examination was heldhence the said incident was clearly not a paper leak from the cctv footage it is apparent that the candidate has indulged in malpractice by trying to smuggle out the questions during the online test rinl filed a complaintfir at the concerned police station at karimnagar and has also blacklisted srikanth dasari from all future recruitments of rinl for involving in malpractice the release saidit said that as a preventive measure and also to improve the security during online recruitment test of rinl in all future recruitments it is decided to prohibit carrying stationary items like pens pencils scales watches health bands foot wear jackets goggles and jewellery by the candidates into the exam hall further the agency shall be asked to supply pens to the candidates for their use during the online test it added