The Staff Selection Commission, as reported by us yesterday, did not issue only 21 Admit Cards to Sandeep. They actually issued more than 700 of them. At least 700 Admit cards in his name, with the same photograph and at the same examination centre but with different roll numbers and addresses were produced by Yogendra Yadav of Swaraj India at a press conference on Friday.

SSC Chairman Ashim Khurana in fact conceded in an interview that the Admit Cards were indeed issued by the Commission. The explanation given to him was that the Commission wanted to nab the culprit. But in that case, asked Yadav, did the SSC file a complaint with the police? The answer was in the negative, he added.

Even more seriously, Swaraj India on Friday produced more material evidence to warrant a probe into the examinations and selection conducted by the Commission.

The Swaraj India Party chief played an audio conversation, between a candidate and someone claiming to be an employee in the Commission, in which the unidentified employee demands a bribe of ₹50,000 from the candidate who had secured 39 marks against the cut-off mark of 41.