CBI registers case against private company for JEE fraud

Hyderabad: The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a case against a private company and its management, including directors and three employees and others on the allegations of irregularities being committed in the ongoing JEE (Mains) Exams 2021 by a private educational institution at an examination centre. It was further alleged that the said company […]

Hyderabad: The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a case against a private company and its management, including directors and three employees and others on the allegations of irregularities being committed in the ongoing JEE (Mains) Exams 2021 by a private educational institution at an examination centre.

It was further alleged that the said company and its directors were manipulating the online examination of JEE (Mains) and facilitating aspiring students to get admission in top NITs in consideration of huge amount by solving the question paper of the applicant through remote access from a chosen examination centre in Sonepat (Haryana), the CBI said in a statement.

It was also alleged that the suspects used to obtain Class 10 and 12th mark sheets, user IDs, passwords, and postdated cheques of aspiring students from different parts of country as security and once admission was done, they collected huge money from them between Rs 12 to Rs 15 lakh, per candidate.

Searches were conducted on Thursday, at 19 places including Delhi, Pune, Jamshedpur, Indore and Bengaluru, which led to recovery of 25 laptops, 30 postdated cheques along with voluminous incriminating documents of different students. Several persons are being questioned. Investigation is continuing.

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