JEE (Mains) Scam: CBI conducts searches at five locations in city

 

 

 

A special team of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) from New Delhi conducted searches at five locations in Nagpur in connection with irregularities in the JEE (Mains) (Joint Entrance Examination). Sources informed that the team of CBI New Delhi with its Nagpur counterparts conducted the searches at five locations. Many incriminating documents were reportedly seized by the CBI officials during the searches. It may be mentioned that the JEE is an Engineering Entrance Exam conducted for admission to various Engineering colleges in India. Some JEE coaching institutes and students from Nagpur also are part of the scam in which the students were getting admission in top NITs (National Institutes of Technology) across the country.

 

The CBI had registered a case against Affinity Education Private Limited, its Directors - Siddharth Krishna, Vishwambhar Mani Tripathi and Govind Varshney on the allegations of irregularities being committed in the ongoing JEE (Mains) Exams 2021 by the accused institution and its staff members. According to the FIR, 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 by solving the question paper of the applicant through remote access from a chosen examination centre in Sonepat (Haryana).

 

Sources claimed that the accused used to obtain Std X and XII mark sheets, the User IDs, passwords, and post-dated cheques of aspiring students in different parts of the country as security and once admission was done, they used to collect heavy amount ranging from Rs 12-15 lakh per candidate. Last week, the CBI had conducted searches at 19 places, including at Delhi NCR, Pune, Jamshedpur, Indore and Bangalore.