A techie from Rajasthan is within the limelight for utilizing Synthetic Intelligence (AI) to remove his authorities job opponents. After figuring out safety lapses in authorities job portal, the mining engineer deployed AI chatbots to masks himself by VPN and deleted names of fellow opponents from the benefit record of Rajasthan Public Service Fee (RPSC), Indian Categorical reported.
The accused, recognized as 27-year-old Rahul Kumar Meeena, had appeared for a state degree recruitment examination by which he secured second rank below the Scheduled Tribe (ST) class. To enhance his possibilities of securing employment, he withdrew the applying of the primary candidate Ashish Meena, who was simply above him within the provisional record of Assistant Mining Engineer examination, 2024. To keep away from detection, he eradicated two extra names from the record of candidates who secured 4th and fifth place.
All of the candidates whose software was deleted by Rahul Kumar Meeena acquired an SMS informing that their software has been withdrawn as per their request.
It is very important notice that the ST record comprised 6 candidates towards as soon as emptiness. This recruitment drive was carried out for whole of 24 vacancies, together with one for ST class. The provisional record printed in July 2025, listed as many as 78 candidates together with Rahul Kumar Meeena.
How did techie’s sly scheme floor?
When Ravi one of many candidate whose software was acquired a message stating that his software has been withdrawn as per his request, he approached the police. Alarmed with this message, Ravi approached the RPSC to inquire why his software was withdrawn when he didn’t make any such request.
The SMS replace pointed to one thing regarding because the window to withdraw functions had closed lengthy earlier than. RPSC Deputy Director and analyst-programmer Raghuveer Gurjar filed a grievance within the matter relating to tampering with the RPSC recruitment portal within the 2024 examination, Ajmer’s Deputy SP (Cyber police station) Shamsher Khan mentioned. “RSCP subsequently knowledgeable the Division of Info Expertise and Communication (DoIT&C), which handles the RPSC recruitment portal,” the publication quoted Shamsher Khan as saying.
Probe revealed that Rahul Sinha created a pretend Single Signal-On (SSO) ID to withdraw all three functions. Notably, SSO is a singular Digital Identification issued by the Rajasthan authorities to each registered citizen, enterprise and authorities worker. Investigators had been capable of hint the accused with the assistance of IP handle, which was the identical Rahul Meena used to create his login credentials.
Subsequently, the investigators traced IP handle location which was discovered to be from the Metal Authority of India Restricted (SAIL) compound in Jharkhand. DSP Khan added, “Throughout investigation we discovered that Rahul Meena had been working in SAIL, Jharkhand, since 2019; this was the identical place from the place the functions had been withdrawn.”
Rahul had secured a BTech in Mining Engineering diploma from Banaras Hindu College and had been working with SAIL in Jharkhand since 2019. Rahul had a behavior of crawling websites on ‘inspection mode’ throughout his free time and allegedly tried to vary the coding of internet sites utilizing AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Grok and Deepseek, amongst others.
Nonetheless, whereas circumventing security gaps of RPSC portal, he left behind sufficient trails and was in the end arrested. All his gadgets, together with cell and laptops, had been seized and had been despatched to Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) group for evaluation. Whereas Rahul was remanded to police custody until 25 June, the ST emptiness was ultimately secured by the primary candidate Ashish Meena.