The East Zone team of the Commissioner’s Task Force on Thursday busted a 12-member gang which was involved in the malpractice of tampering with the answer sheets of JNTU’s B-Tech exams.
According to police, the gang was involved in the malpractice of writing examination by illegally getting B.Tech Examination sealed bundles Answer Sheets, tampering them while transporting from various colleges to JNTU Examination Branch at Kukatpally. The accused persons were committing the crime of tampering the seal of the Answer Booklets outside the JNTU examination branch by taking amount of Rs 5,000 to 10,000 per paper and giving them to Supplementary Examination candidates for rewriting the wrong answers correctly from books and depositing back in JNTU, Hyderabad, thereby cheating with the University with malpractice.
The Task Force team seized nine sealed Answer sheet bundles dated 10.12.12 and 11.12.12 of Bharath College of Ibrahimpatnam, Srinidhi College of Ghatkesar, Science College of Ibrahimpatanm, Aware Madhavanji College of Maheshwaram and Arora College of Uppal, while being transported in a Xylo vehicle bearing No. AP12-H-9012. The police also seized 68 loose answer sheets from the possession of accused persons along with net cash of Rs 65,000, while they were rewriting answer sheets in the room.
In the above the malpractice, the Task Force Team arrested 12 people involved in the racket. A case vide Cr. No. 417/2012, u/s 406, 419, 420, 468, 471 IPC r/w Sec 8 of The Andhra Pradesh Public Examinations (Prevention of Malpractices and Unfair (Means) Act, 1997 is registered at Saidabad PS and being investigated.
The arrested accused include M Venkatsh, C Balu Mahender, M Jai Ram Reddy, T Hari, Shaik Mahaldar Hussain Basha, D. Kirthi Verdhan Deeraj, Sai Pranay, Dheeraj Reddy, M. Sridhar, E. Anvesh, Setty Ravi Shankar and M Rakesh Reddy. Most of them are students of B-Tech.
–Agencies