Kingpin of JEE paper leak in police net

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Posted online: Thursday , April 24, 2008 at 12:58:10
Updated: Thursday , April 24, 2008 at 12:58:10

kolkata, April 23 After a four-day search, the CID arrested Manas Patra, proofreader at the Saraswati Press and alleged kingpin in the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) paper leak case. The sleuths nabbed him on Wednesday from a bus near the Tikiapara railway station in Howrah district on Wednesday.

Inspector General (Special), Neeraj Nayan Pandey, said the CID had been tracing Patra’s movements since he went absconding. “He had been constantly changing locations to evade arrest. On Wednesday, we came to know that he was on a bus travelling on the Midnapore-Howrah route. I cannot say more at this point as the investigation is in its preliminary stage,” Pandey said.

The CID has already arrested Arun Chowdhury, an advocate and Patra’s brother-in-law, and clerk Mihir Dandapat from Kharagpur on Saturday for selling the question papers for Rs 2.5 lakh per set.

Patra, a resident of Konnagar, Hooghly was working in the confidential cell of the high security state government-run Saraswati Press, which has been publishing question papers for government examinations. The CID sources said that this wasn’t the first time question papers were leaked from the press. “We have reasons to believe this racket has been going on since four to five years,” they said.

Following the discovery of the racket, the question papers were sent to the JEE Board, which confirmed that they were copies of the original.

The CID sources say that Patra had photocopied the question papers and passed it on to those selling the same to the aspirants. “There are more people involved in this racket. The investigation is on and we hope to unravel the case soon,” Pandey said.

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