A Delhi court on Tuesday sent a Russian national, arrested for alleged manipulation in JEE (Mains) exam last year, to two-day CBI custody. Duty magistrate Vaibhav Mehta sent the accused Mikhail Shargin to CBI custody till October 6, when he was produced before the court and the agency requested his remand to uncover the conspiracy.
This Court is of the view that the PC (police custodial) remand of the accused is necessary for the purpose of investigation and therefore this court partly allows the application moved by the IO and remand the accused in police custody for only two days. gives. The judge said. The CBI, in its application seeking five-day remand of the accused, told the court that he has to be questioned about the data contained in his phone, laptop and external hard disk. The CBI said the central agency had issued a ‘look out circular’ against Shargin on suspicion of being the main hacker for the alleged manipulation of the prestigious exam. The CBI said that when Shargin arrived at the airport from Almaty, Kazakhstan, he was alerted by the Bureau of Immigration, adding that he was immediately taken into custody by the agency on his arrival here on Monday.
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“During investigation, it came to the fore that some foreign nationals were involved in several online examinations including JEE (Mains) in connivance with other accused in this case,” the CBI said. Investigations indicate that Shargin tampered with the iLeon software, the platform on which JEE (Main)-2021 exam was conducted, and also helped other accused in hacking the computer systems of suspected candidates during the exam.
The agency had booked Affinity in September last year education Private Limited and its three directors, Siddharth Krishna, Vishwambhar Mani Tripathi and Govind Varshney besides other touts and associates for alleged manipulation in the examination. It was alleged that the three directors, in connivance with other associates and touts, were manipulating the online examination of JEE (Mains) and helping aspiring students get admission in top national institutions. technology in exchange for large sums of money. They used to solve questions through remote access from a chosen exam center in Sonepat (Haryana). “It was also alleged that the accused used to obtain class 10 and 12 marksheets, user IDs, passwords and post dated checks of interested students in different parts of the country as security and once the entry was made, they were heavily used to collect money. 12-15 lakh (approx) per candidate,” the CBI said.
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