CBI has arrested seven persons, including two IIT Delhi students and a system engineer of a IT behemoth in Hyderabad who were allegedly impersonating in Nationalised Banks Clerical Examination.
CBI sources said the system engineer Tarun Uppal, three middlemen Sugreev Singh Gujjar, Hanumat Singh Gujjar and Sanjvee Kumar, two IIT-Delhi students and a banking job aspirant were nabbed from a coaching institute in Ghaziabad.
The sources said the arrested IIT students and Uppal were taking the clerical examination on behalf of three aspirants at Ideal Institute of Technology at Govindpuram conducted on-line by Mumbai-based Institute of Banking Personnel Services.
"A case was registered under Indian Penal Code, Prevention of Corruption Act and Information Technology Act on the allegations that the said persons were impersonating in the Nationalised Banks Clerical Examination which was being conducted on-line by Mumbai-based Institute," CBI spokesperson Kanchan Prasad said here today.
She said searches were conducted which led to recovery of cash of Rs 6.5 lakh (approx) from Sanjeev Kumar which was allegedly meant to be paid to one of the impersonators and other documents/materials.
"All the seven arrested accused were produced before a competent court at Ghaziabad. Two accused were granted four days police custody and other five were sent to judicial custody," she said.