Arrested Russian hacker helped 820 cheat in JEE Main 2021

A Delhi court has sent Mikhail Shargin to two-day CBI custody. Mikhail has been arrested for his alleged role in tampering the software of the JEE Main 2021. 

Russian hacker Mikhail Shargin allegedly aided cheating by 820 students by manipulating the online system in JEE Main 2021. A Delhi court has sent Mikhail to CBI custody for two days.  

The agency arrested Mikhail for his alleged role in tampering the software of the JEE Main 2021. He had a lookout circular issued against him. He was interrogated by agency slueths after being picked up from the Bureau of Immigration at Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi where he was detained upon arrival from Almaty, Kazakhstan. He was arrested later. 

Mikhail had hacked Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Software which was the platform for the JEE Main in order to provide remote connectivity to control computer terminals of candidates appearing for the exam. 

The JEE Main 2021 Scam 

The CBI had booked Affinity Education Pvt Ltd and its three directors, Siddharth Krishna, Vishwambhar Mani Tripathi and Govind Varshney, besides other touts and associates for alleged manipulation of JEE Main examination in September 2021.  

The accused were manipulating the JEE Main examination which is conducted in online mode and facilitating aspiring students to get admission in top National Institutes of Technology by solving their question papers through remote access from a chosen examination centre in Sonepat, Haryana.  

Searches were conducted at 19 places, including Delhi, Pune, Indore, Bangalore and Jamshedpur, and officers had seized 25 laptops, 30 post-dated cheques, several personal computers and other incriminating documents and devices.  

The JEE Main is conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) in online mode through which admission to undergraduate level engineering courses BE/BTech takes place. NITs, IIITs and IITs also admit students through JEE Main. JEE Main is the gateway to the IIT entrance - JEE Advanced. 

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