The Central Bureau of Investigation has made four more arrests, including an assistant professor in the JEE (Mains) exam fraud case.
September 7, 2021
CBI arrested 4 more accused in JEE (mains) exam fraud case--lab technicians Arvind Saini and Kuldeep Garg, assistant professor Sandeep Gupta and peon Tulsi Ram. (Representative Image)
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested four more persons in connection with the Joint Entrance Examination (Mains) exam fraud case, officials said on Monday.
The arrested accused have been identified as lab technicians Arvind Saini and Kuldeep Garg, assistant professor Sandeep Gupta and peon Tulsi Ram.
Sources said that a few more arrests are likely to take place in the next few days and many people are being questioned in the case.
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Earlier, seven people, including two directors and four employees of a Noida-based educational institute were arrested in connection with irregularities in the JEE (Mains) exams which were held in August last week and September 1 and 2.
After conducting searches and questioning several people, the CBI had on Friday arrested two directors of Affinity Education Private Limited - Siddarth Krishna , Vishambhar Mani Triapthi, four employees - Ritik Singh, Anjum Dawoodani, Animesh Kumar Singh, Employee, Ajinkya Narhari Patil and a private person Ranjeet Singh Thakur.
Fraud in JEE mains: 3 sent to CBI custody, Rahul Gandhi alleges cover-up by govt
CBI arrested 4 more accused in JEE (mains) exam fraud case--lab technicians Arvind Saini and Kuldeep Garg, assistant professor Sandeep Gupta and peon Tulsi Ram. (Representative Image)
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested four more persons in connection with the Joint Entrance Examination (Mains) exam fraud case, officials said on Monday.
The arrested accused have been identified as lab technicians Arvind Saini and Kuldeep Garg, assistant professor Sandeep Gupta and peon Tulsi Ram.
Sources said that a few more arrests are likely to take place in the next few days and many people are being questioned in the case.
READ: Fraud in JEE mains: 3 sent to CBI custody, Rahul Gandhi alleges cover-up by govt
Earlier, seven people, including two directors and four employees of a Noida-based educational institute were arrested in connection with irregularities in the JEE (Mains) exams which were held in August last week and September 1 and 2.
After conducting searches and questioning several people, the CBI had on Friday arrested two directors of Affinity Education Private Limited - Siddarth Krishna , Vishambhar Mani Triapthi, four employees - Ritik Singh, Anjum Dawoodani, Animesh Kumar Singh, Employee, Ajinkya Narhari Patil and a private person Ranjeet Singh Thakur.
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The JEE is an entrance exam conducted for admission to various engineering colleges in India.
According to the FIR registered in the case, the accused were manipulating the online examination of JEE (Mains) and facilitating aspiring students to get admission to top NITs (National Institute of Technology) in consideration of a huge amount by solving the question paper of the applicant through remote access from a chosen examination centre in Sonepat (Haryana).
“It was also alleged that the accused used to obtain Xth and XIIth mark sheets, the User IDs, Passwords, and post-dated cheques of aspiring students in different parts of the country as security and once admission was done, they used to collect heavy amount ranging from Rs 12-15 lakh per candidate,” said CBI spokesperson RC Joshi on Friday.
Searches were conducted at 19 places, including in Delhi & NCR, Pune, Jamshedpur, Indore and Bangalore, which, according to CBI, led to the recovery of 25 laptops, 7 computers, around 30 post-dated cheques along with voluminous incriminating documents, devices including mark-sheets of students.
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