The CBI has detained seven people for trying to sabotage the ongoing engineering entrance exam – JEE Main. Officials told News18 that preliminary investigation revealed that Rs 15 lakh was being paid by the candidates in exchange for someone else to take the exam.
“Rs 15 lakh was demanded from each candidate. In return someone else will test him and a positive result was assured by the conspirators,” a source told News18.
A CBI statement said that the accused were manipulating the online examination of JEE (Mains) and helping aspiring students to get admission in top NITs. “The conspirators were facilitating the scam by solving the question paper of the applicant through remote access from a chosen examination center at Sonepat (Haryana) in view of the huge amount,” the CBI said.
A CBI statement said that a case was registered in this regard on September 1 and thereafter raids were conducted at 20 places in Delhi, NCR, Pune and Jamshedpur. “A case was registered against a private company and its directors, three employees and private persons (Nali) including others,” the CBI said.
The CBI said that his touts, associates and employees of private educational institutions under the scanner were posted at the JEE examination centre. Investigation is on against the detained persons and some unidentified persons. According to officials, at least one of the conspirators is from Bihar.
During the raid, equipment including 25 laptops, seven computers, around 30 post-dated cheques along with a huge quantity of incriminating documents and PDC mark sheets of various students were recovered.
The CBI has registered a case against Affinity Education Pvt Ltd and its directors – Siddharth Krishna, Vishwambhar Mani Tripathi and Govind Varshne among others.
JEE Main was earlier administered by CBSE and is currently conducted by National Testing Agency (NTA). NTA was established to make the examinations more scientifically oriented and transparent. The agency boasts of scanners, identity checks, among other provisions to prevent such frauds. Every year, around 10 lakh candidates appear for JEE Main, which not only allows admission to undergraduate level engineering courses, but is also the gateway to IIT entrance – JEE Advanced.
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