The team conducted a raid on 19 places including Delhi and neighboring districts in the National Capital Region, Pune, Jamshedpur, Indore and Bangalore
The Central Investigation Bureau on Thursday conducted a search in 19 locations throughout the country after registering a case against a private company on charges of efforts to manipulate the Jee (HARS) exam which was ongoing 2021, said people who were familiar with these developments.
CBI spokesman RC Joshi said the agency had registered the first information report (FIR) to the affinity education of PVT Ltd and his director, Siddharth Krishna, Vishambhar Mani Tripathi and Govind Varshney on their charges, along with their peers posted in other examination centers, manipulating examination Online jee (mains)
HT tried to reach the company for its comments but there was no response.
Raids coincided with the Session 4 Jee (Parent) exam which was held on Thursday, the last of the test string carried out by the National Testing Agency (NTA).
Joshi said people accused of facilitating prospective students to get entrance tickets to the National Institutes of Technology by breaking the Petitioner’s question paper through remote access from the selected inspection center in Sonepat (Haryana).
“It was also the allegation that the defendant used to get Xth and XIith Mark Sheets, user ID, password, and post-date examination of prospective students in various parts of the country as security and after receipt was carried out, they were used to collect heavy amounts from 12 -15 lakh (around) per candidate, “he said.
The teams conducted a raid on 19 places including Delhi and neighboring districts in the National Capital Region, Pune, Jamshedpur, Indore and Bangalore which led to the recovery of 25 laptops, 7 computers, around 30 post-date checks along with documents.