Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Friday said a process has been started to terminate 42 government officials involved in "malpractices" in various exams conducted by the state public service commission Making a statement during the budget discussion in the assembly, Khandu also said that since 2017, there were eleven exams conducted by the Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission, in which a total of 54 people, including 42 government officials, have been arrested on allegations of malpractices. Terming the paper leak issue as "inhumane", the chief minister said that the government has been handling the alleged irregularities strictly by conducting a probe by the Special Investigating Cell (SIC) of the state police and later, the investigation was handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation.