CBI books Noida institute's directors, employees for JEE (Mains) exam fraud

The CBI arrested seven persons, including two directors and four employees of a Noida-based educational institute, in connection with irregularities in the ongoing Joint Entrance Examination (Mains) 2021.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), on Friday, arrested seven persons, including two directors and four employees of a Noida-based educational institute, in connection with irregularities in the ongoing Joint Entrance Examination (Mains) 2021.The CBI has registered a case against Affinity Education Private Limited, its directors - Siddharth Krishna, Vishwambhar Mani Tripathi and Govind Varshney for alleged irregularities in the ongoing JEE (Mains) exams by staff members.After conducting searches and questioning several people, the agency arrested Krishna and Tripathi, along with four employees - Ritik Singh, Anjum Dawoodani, Animesh Kumar Singh, Ajinkya Narhari Patil and another, Ranjeet Singh Thakur.JEE is an engineering entrance exam conducted for admission to various engineering colleges in India.ALSO READ: CBI carries out raids in six states over alleged irregularities in JEE mains exam According to the FIR, the accused were manipulating the online examination of JEE (Mains) and facilitating aspiring students to get admission to top NITs (National Institute of Technology) in consideration of a huge amount by solving the question paper of the applicant through remote access from a chosen examination centre in Sonipat (Haryana).“It was also alleged that the accused used to obtain 10th and 12th marksheets, 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 a heavy amount ranging from Rs 12-15 lakh per candidate,” said CBI spokesperson RC Joshi.On Thursday and Friday, the CBI conducted searches in 19 places, including in Delhi and NCR, Pune, Jamshedpur, Indore and Bangalore, which led to the recovery of 25 laptops, seven computers, around 30 post-dated cheques along with voluminous incriminating documents, devices, including PDC’s (post-dated certificate) mark sheet of different students. ALSO WATCH: Coronavirus: JEE-Main begins; NTA takes safety steps