CBI registered case against Pvt firm for manipulating IIT JEE exams, conducts searches at 19 locations across the country
New Delhi, September 4
The Central Bureau of Investigation on recently conducted searches at 19 locations across the country in connection with manipulations in online exams of JEE exams.
The CBI registered a case against a private firm on charges of attempting to manipulate the ongoing JEE (Mains) exams 2021.
CBI spokesperson RC Joshi said the agency has registered an FIR against Affinity Education Pvt Ltd and its directors, Siddharth Krishna, Vishambhar Mani Tripathi and Govind Varshney on the charges that they, along with their associates posted at the examination centre and others, were manipulating the online examination of JEE (Mains).
The raids coincided with the session 4 JEE (Mains) 2021 exams held on Thursday, the last of the string of tests conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA).
The officials added that the accused persons were facilitating aspiring students to get admission to top National Institutes of Technology by solving the question paper of the applicant through remote access from a chosen examination centre in Sonepat (Haryana).
The CBI officials said that it was also alleged that the accused used to obtain 10th and 12th mark sheets, the User IDs, Passwords, and post-dated cheques of aspiring students in different parts of country as security and once admission was done, they used to collect heavy amount ranging from 12-15 Lakh (approx) per candidate.
The teams carried out raids at 19 places including Delhi-NCR, Pune, Jamshedpur, Indore and Bangalore which led to recovery of 25 laptops, 7 computers, around 30 post-dated cheques along with voluminous documents.
