JEE Main scam: Assistant prof among 4 more arrested

The arrested accused are lab technicians Arvind Saini and Kuldeep Garg, assistant professor Sandeep Gupta and peon Tulsi Ram of a private engineering college. With this, the total number of arrests in the case has increased to 11. 

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested four more persons in connection with the JEE Main 2021 scam. The arrested accused are identified as lab technicians Arvind Saini and Kuldeep Garg, assistant professor Sandeep Gupta and peon Tulsi Ram of a private engineering college. Earlier, seven persons, including Affinity Education Directors Siddharth Krishna and Vishambar Mani Tripathi, and four employees of the company were arrested in connection with irregularities in the JEE Main scam. 

Sources said more arrests were expected to take place in the coming days and many people were being questioned in the case.  

As per the FIR registered in the case, the accused were manipulating the online JEE Main exam and were facilitating students to get admission to top NITs (National Institute of Technology). The accused used to charge around Rs 15 lakh from candidates in exchange for someone else taking the JEE Main exam. As per a statement issued by the CBI, accused connived with the supervisors of the recently concluded Session 4 of the JEE Main exam centres located at Sonepat in Haryana and a few more centres in the state and made necessary arrangements for running fraudulent practices during the exams.  

Searches were conducted at 20 places across India, which led to the recovery of 25 laptops, seven computers, around 30 post-dated cheques along with voluminous incriminating documents, devices, including marksheets of students.  

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