Joginder Dahiya is already in police net, while Ramesh Dahiya is still at large. Joginder’s police remand ended on Monday and he has been sent to judicial custody for the next two weeks. It is learnt, Joginder has refused to undergo a narco-analysis and a brain mapping test as demanded by officers of the Special Crime Investigation Cell.

The Chandigarh Police is also exploring avenues to stop Ramesh from leaving the country. They might issue a Look Out Circular and will soon alert all international airports and ports in the country to keep a lookout for him. A senior officer of the UT police said the legal nitty-gritty of these two measures have been finalised. He said, “It is very important to get Ramesh. He knows the rest of this crime story.”

Ramesh was first booked in 1994 on charges of leaking question papers to the post of primary teachers for corporation schools in Delhi. A case for cheating and criminal conspiracy was registered against him, his relative Rajesh Chikkara and other accomplices Sunil Gulia, Rajpal Kundu, Vijay Bhardwaj, Hitesh Kumar, Ramesh and Kamlesh Kumar.

Joginder surfaced on the police radar in 1998 when it came to light that he had played a hand in leaking the question papers for the Central Bureau of Investigation. A case on cheating, fraud and forgery was registered against him and one Sanjay Rana — also accused in the latest ASI leak case — and the then section officer of the Staff Selection Commission K K Sood and a peon Kanhey Lal.

Joginder and Ramesh met in Delhi courts during the hearings of these cases. Once they were out on bail, they teamed up and expanded their operation outside Delhi. The Jaipur incident alerted the police that they were working together. On August 18, 2001, the two along with Sanjay Rana and Rajesh Chikkara, intercepted a truck carrying question papers for the examination of Section Officers in Jaipur. The press employees were assaulted as they refused to part with the papers. The gang was arrested and a case was registered at the Horwara police station in Jaipur. But they went back to their profession the moment they were out on bail.