PRAYAGRAJ: A manager of a UP Board examination centre and his son were among the three persons arrested for running a massive cheating racket in trans-Yamuna area of Prayagraj district on Sunday.
Special Task Force (STF) also recovered three mobile phones, Rs 340, screenshots of five WhatsApp chats and many solved answer sheets.
The accused were identified as Indrabhan Singh, Ashish Singh and Vikas Yadav, all residents of Meja. Indrabhan was the principal and centre manager of the examination centre, his son Ashish was a computer teacher and Vikas was a solver.
Additional SP (STF) Neeraj Kumar Pandey said, “We were tipped off about a gang of three running a copying racket in Meja. An STF team conducted a series of raids and nabbed the three accused.”
The ASP said that the accused had planned to submit the solved answersheets of class XII of mathematics on Saturday, once the exam was over.
“Vikas was arrested while he was solving questions of class XII mathematics examination near a brick kiln on Saturday afternoon hours,” the SP added.
During interrogation, Vikas told the police that he had to deliver the solved copies to Indrabhan, who was the principal and centre manager of Mata Daan Singh Inter College.
Based on Vikas’ statement, STF nabbed Indrabhan and his son.
The father-son duo told the police that they used to send question papers of class XII board exams to solvers through WhatsApp. They used to charge Rs 4,000 from each candidate to provide a solved question paper.
They used to charge candidates around Rs 35,000 to Rs 40,000 to provide copies of solved question papers of all subjects.
Special Task Force (STF) also recovered three mobile phones, Rs 340, screenshots of five WhatsApp chats and many solved answer sheets.
The accused were identified as Indrabhan Singh, Ashish Singh and Vikas Yadav, all residents of Meja. Indrabhan was the principal and centre manager of the examination centre, his son Ashish was a computer teacher and Vikas was a solver.
Additional SP (STF) Neeraj Kumar Pandey said, “We were tipped off about a gang of three running a copying racket in Meja. An STF team conducted a series of raids and nabbed the three accused.”
The ASP said that the accused had planned to submit the solved answersheets of class XII of mathematics on Saturday, once the exam was over.
“Vikas was arrested while he was solving questions of class XII mathematics examination near a brick kiln on Saturday afternoon hours,” the SP added.
During interrogation, Vikas told the police that he had to deliver the solved copies to Indrabhan, who was the principal and centre manager of Mata Daan Singh Inter College.
Based on Vikas’ statement, STF nabbed Indrabhan and his son.
The father-son duo told the police that they used to send question papers of class XII board exams to solvers through WhatsApp. They used to charge Rs 4,000 from each candidate to provide a solved question paper.
They used to charge candidates around Rs 35,000 to Rs 40,000 to provide copies of solved question papers of all subjects.
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