AIIMS paper leak case ‘mastermind’ held

Chandigarh: The CBI on Thursday arrested the alleged mastermind in the paper leak of a nursing officer recruitment exam conducted by the AIIMS on June 3, the fifth arrest in the case.The main accused is Navneet, said a CBI spokesperson. He will be produced before a court in New Delhi on Friday. The other four accused are Manjeet Kumar, Monu Malik, Anil Kumar and Paramveer (candidate), said the spokesperson.The AIIMS had conducted NORCET-4 (Nursing Officer Recruitment Common Entrance Test) at 300+ centers all over India for recruitment of 3,055 nursing officers for AIIMS and a few other government hospitals in Delhi. It was alleged that by evening of June 5, some tweets were being circulated on social media claiming leak of question paper. A case was registered on June 9 against a private person and others, including Mohali-based Gian Jyoti Institute of Management and Technology.It was further alleged the modus-operandi used by the accused was to replace the TFT (computer monitor) assigned to a candidate with a doctored monitor brought in the lab from outside by an accomplice. Through the doctored monitor, the computer display of the candidates was duplicated giving remote access to the accused.Searches were earlier conducted at five places in Haryana, Chandigarh, Mohali and Delhi and the examination centre (at Mohali). During searches and investigation, the NVR (Network Video Recorder) containing CCTV footage, server laptops, CPUs of identified candidates, mobile phones and dubious TFTs were recovered.J S Bedi, managing director, Gian Jyoti Institute of Management and Technology, had said they have no role to play in conducting the AIIMS examination. Bedi said, “We had submitted all the required documents with the CBI and told them that we had only rented out the premises.”
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