The CBI arrested 14 men and women, including 31-year-old P Guirivi Reddy from Andhra Pradesh, described as the kingpin of the racket. Reddy was earlier arrested for running a similar racket in his state during the Engineering and Medical Common Entrance Test (EAMCET) in 2009.
All 14 arrested are from Andhra
All the 14 people arrested by the CBI on Saturday for the paper leak and exam scam are from Andhra Pradesh.
Among them was P Guirivi Reddy, who was arrested for a similar racket in Andhra Pradesh in 2009. While Reddy and six others were arrested from a city hotel, seven candidates — all girls — were nabbed from four different examination centers in the city. All of them have been booked for forgery and cheating.
On Saturday morning, CBI sleuths swooped down on the hotel and nabbed Reddy and his accomplices while he was dictating answers to seven students over his phone. A scanned copy of the question paper, allegedly mailed by one of the candidates, was on his laptop.
CBI DIG Mahesh Aggarwal, explaining the modus operandi, told TOI that one of the candidates had clicked photos of the question paper with a spy camera and mailed it to Reddy. "The camera and phone were hidden in her undergarments. The photo was mailed to Reddy's laptop in the 'control room' by the girl," said Aggarwal.
"Reddy then acquired answers to the questions on phone from experts in Hyderabad and Patna. The answers could be heard by the girls through earphones cleverly hidden in their hair, which had been left open," Aggarwal added. According to Aggarwal, each candidate paid between Rs 1 lakh and 2.50 lakh to Reddy.
Source:The Times Of India
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