Amid a row over the UGC-NET examination being scrapped and the NEET-UG paper being leaked,Uttar Pradesh Police filed a 900-page chargesheet towards 18 accused, together with alleged mastermind Ravi Attri, within the leak of questons papers for a UP Police Constable qualifying examination.
An estimated 46 lakh folks have been affected after the examination was cancelled; it was scrapped days after candidates took the check amid stories the query paper had been leaked.
NDTV accessed visuals from a ‘cram session’ – held two days earlier than the examination – that confirmed dozens of younger women and men sitting in rows on a garden and finding out the leaked paper.
Sources stated every candidate promised to pay Rs 7 lakh after the examination, for which the query paper and reply keys have been allegedly procured by Ravi Attri, a resident of UP’s Better Noida concerned in a 2015 pre-dental examination paper leak case, and Abhishek Shukla, from UP’s Prayagraj.
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There was an earlier (and unrelated) occasion of leaked papers for a similar examination, through which 15 folks have been arrested. In that case every aspirant had been informed to pay Rs 8 lakh.
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That version of the examination was additionally cancelled, after which Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had declared, “There might be no compromise with sanctity of examinations. Those that toy with the laborious work of children won’t be spared underneath any circumstances.”
UP Police Constable Examination Paper Leak Chargesheet
Among the many particulars on this chargesheet is the situation of the leak – a storehouse in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad. This was after a city-based agency had printed the query papers and earlier than a transport and logistics firm, Transport Company of India, might transfer them to UP.
The 18 arrested included Shivam Giri and Rohit Pandey, each then TCI staffers, and Abhishek Shukla, who stop his job in July final 12 months. Mahendra Jind, the affiliate of a Delhi Police Constable who contacted aspirants and provided them the leaked papers, was additionally arrested.
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All accused can even face expenses underneath the Gangster Act, NDTV has been informed.
UP Police Constable Examination Paper Leak Timeline
The 900-page chargesheet breaks down the sequence of occasions, unfold over two years, through which the accused allegedly conspired and constructed up their unlawful operation.
March 2022: Shukla contacts Attri by a intermediary and is lured by guarantees of untold wealth if he can acquire a duplicate of the query paper. Attri tells Shukla he may have a lot cash he will not should work in his lifetime, and likewise provided him a authorities job.
They meet a 12 months later, in July, and start planning their operation.
November 2023: Attri and Shukla decide on a sum of Rs 5 lakh per aspirant, and promise Giri (one of many TCI staffers with entry to the query paper) between Rs 15 lakh and 20 lakh.
February 2024: The accused put their plan into motion after the primary set of sealed containers, containing the printed query papers, arrive from the Ahmedabad-based printing agency.
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Shukla and Attri, and two different accused – Rajiv Misra from Prayagraj and Shubham Mandal of Noida – meet late night time on the warehouse to interrupt open the sealed field.
Mandal was the safe-cracking skilled.
The accused snuck into the warehouse, recognized a spot the place CCTV cameras wouldn’t spot them, and grabbed a number of the sealed containers. These have been opened by Mandal and Attri and Shukla took images of the query papers, which have been then saved again inside.
Mandal was cautious to interrupt the again of the field for the reason that entrance was visibly sealed.
Days later they acquired info that one other set of papers had arrived, however have been unable to execute the identical plan as a result of there have been witnesses within the warehouse.
24 hours later they tried once more, and this time they have been profitable.
March 2024: Giri travelled to Ghaziabad in UP to fulfill Attri. However this was when a number of the accused, together with Shukla, have been arrested and the case blown open.
‘Anti-Dishonest Invoice?
At the same time as a number of paper leak scandals rock the nation, it’s value remembering the centre, in February, handed an ‘anti-cheating’ invoice to test fraudulent practices equivalent to these – the leaking of examination papers for presidency recruitment exams.
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Underneath this invoice, college students who take aggressive exams in good religion (i.e., they don’t knowingly search to revenue from dishonest) won’t be focused. Nevertheless, those that leak examination papers or tamper with reply sheets, by colluding with officers will withstand 10 years in jail and a wonderful of Rs 1 crore.
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