New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has detained seven people on allegations of trying to subvert the ongoing engineering entrance exams – JEE Main. Officials told News 18 that an initial investigation has revealed that Rs 15 lakh were being paid by candidates in exchange for someone else to take their test.
“Each candidate was asked for Rs 15 lakh. In return someone else would write their exam and assurance was given by the conspirators of a positive result,” a source told News18.
A statement from CBI said that the accused were manipulating the online examination of JEE (Mains) and facilitating aspiring students to get admission in top NITs. “In consideration of a huge amount of money the conspirators were facilitating scam by solving the question paper of the applicant through remote access from a chosen examination centre in Sonepat(Haryana),” CBI was quoted as saying.
CBI on Thursday carried out searches at 19 locations in connection with alleged manipulation of the 2021 JEE (Mains) examination by a private institute, Affinity Education Pvt Ltd, and its directors, officials said. The accusation was that the coaching institute manipulated the system and took the JEE Main test ‘remotely’ on behalf of students.
As many as 25 Laptops, seven computers, around 30 post-dated cheques along with voluminous incriminating documents and devices including PDC’s mark sheet of different students were recovered during the raids.
CBI said that the private educational institution under the scanner had their touts, associates and staff posted at the JEE examination centre. A probe is on against those detained and some unnamed persons. At least one of the conspirators is from Bihar.
It was also alleged that the accused used to obtain as security aspiring students’ mark sheets of Class X and XII, user IDs, passwords, and post-dated cheques, and once the admission was done, they used to collect heavy amounts per candidate across the country, he said.
