The CBI has registered a case against a private company and others, including its directors and three employees and private persons (conduits), on the allegations of irregularities being committed in the ongoing JEE (Mains) Exams 2021 and conducted searches at several locations across the country.
The accused educational institution Affinity Education Pvt. Ltd., its directors Siddharth Krishna, Vishwambhar Mani Tripathi and Govind Varshney have been named as accused in the case.
“It was further alleged that the accused company and its directors were manipulating the online examination of JEE (Mains) and facilitating aspiring students to get admission in top NITs in consideration of huge amount by solving the question paper of the applicant through remote access from a chosen examination centre in Sonepat (Haryana),” the CBI said in a statement.
It was also alleged that the accused used to obtain Xth and XIIth 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.
Searches were conducted on Thursday at 19 places including Delhi and NCR, Pune, Jamshedpur, Indore and Bangalore which led to recovery of 25 laptops, seven personal computers, around 30 post-dated cheques along with voluminous incriminating documents/ devices including PDCs and mark sheet of different students.