The Gandhinagar police have nabbed two prime accused who were involved in the entire conspiracy behind the LRD paper leak case. The accused were nabbed from Delhi and Madhya Pradesh with the help of Ahmedabad crime branch and Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS). Vineet Mathur, a resident of Delhi, was arrested by Gujarat police from the national Capital and Ashok Sahu, a resident of Ratlam in Madhya Pradesh, was held in Indore. Both the accused have been brought to Gandhinagar.
During the investigation, it was revealed that Mathur was the main person who made the arrangements to show the leaked question paper to the 28 students in Delhi. Sahu had been arrested earlier in May 2018 by Madhya Pradesh police for his involvement in leaking competitive exam papers and was later released on bail.
It was revealed that on November 28, a meeting was held at the Hotel White President located on Ashram road of Ahmedabad between the conspirators of Ahmedabad and Delhi-based gangs regarding leaking the paper. The seven people present, identified as Nilesh Chauhan, Suresh Pandya, Ashwin Parmar, Indrawadan Parmar, Vineet Mathur, Ashok Sahu and Manish Sharma, hatched the entire conspiracy and formulated the plan to leak the paper at this gathering. After the meeting, the gang comprising Vineet, Ashok and Manish went back to their respective bases.
The police had taken the arrested candidates to Delhi to identify the places where the gang had showed them the paper. According to police officials, the gang had taken some of the candidates by road and the others were taken by air to Delhi. Once in the capital city, the candidates had been divided into seven groups and were shown the leaked paper.
What is still eluding the officials is the channel through which the paper was leaked and processed. However, they are confident that once the three other accused involved in the meeting are nabbed, the link will be disclosed and the mole will be exposed. Right now, Nilesh Chauhan, Suresh Pandya, Ashwin Parmar and Manish Sharma are absconding and the search for them is on.