The chargesheet was filed in the designated CBI court at Lucknow against Gupta, a 1987 batch IAS officer, Prabhat Kumar Sinha, a Provincial Civil Services officer and the then Additional Director, and Raj Gopal Singh Verma, the then Deputy Director of UP Information Department.

According to the chargesheet, Gupta, during his tenure as Director of Information, was heading a committee which would make appointments for Group C in the Information Department. The CBI alleged that Verma, who was appointed as nodal officer by the committee, tabulated the results of the written test in a computer, copied it in a floppy and loaded it in his home computer.

“Thereafter, they started contacting the prospective candidates and collected illegal gratification from them for selecting them for the posts,” the chargesheet claimed. It annexed statements of candidates recorded by the CBI that they had paid money to the Deputy Director when he visited their homes.