Two contractual employees and a woman invigilator were on Monday arrested in connection with the BDS examination scam on Monday taking the total number of arrest to 10. For the first time BU employees have been arrested during the investigation being conducted by the STF in the BDS examination scam.
Including the number of arrests on Monday the tally stands at 10 which include 3 students, a hired writer, kingpin Sajjan Singh Parmar and his accomplices Debobrat Naik and Upendra Singh. lalit Gurjar, Amrit Patle and Mamta Jharbade were arrested on Monday. lalit Gurjar and Amrit Patle were contractual employee of BU who were assigned the work of managing examination control room while Mamta Jharbade is a PhD scholar and was roped in to work as invigilator.
lalit and Amrit used to provide original answer sheets to Upendra Singh who was an invigilator in the examination in turn would hand over the answer sheet to the kingpin Sajjan Singh who would facilitate the filling of correct answers in the answer sheets. The answer sheets were then brought back to the examination hall and were validated by Upendra and Mamta by signing the answer sheets. The hired writers used to write the answer copies outside the examination hall and those experts included persons clearing BDS examination earlier.