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Srinagar, Nov 27 : Crime Branch of police has opposed bail to one of the arrested accused in a scam involving selling of Common Entrance Test papers by the Board of Professional Entrance Examinations (BOPEE) last year.
In objection to the bail plea moved by the accused before an anti-corruption court here, Sajjad Ahmad, the Crime Branch said that investigation indicates that the he is involved in hatching of a conspiracy with the other accused leading to leakage of examination paper of CET during the year 2012. "The investigation conducted so far has revealed that the applicant has been a close associate of Farooq Ahmad Itoo a kingpin of the racket," the Crime Branch said. Sajjad, Crime Branch said, has received question papers of Physics, Chemistry and Biology from Itoo at Nishat and distributed it among various candidates through one Haroon Rashid of Dayalgam Anantnag.
"The applicant has received huge amount from Haroon Rashid and others and thereafter provided them the question papers. Out of this amount a portion was paid to Farooq Ahmad Itoo," the Crime Branch said, seeking dismissal of the bail application.
Meanwhile, the former Chairman BOPEE , Mushtaq Ahmad Peer, who was arrested last week, also moved application for bail before the court. Both bail applications have been listed on Friday.
The former BOPEE chairman was arrested on the basis of statements recorded from the brokers, students and their parents. The recovery of vital information from his personal computer which was seized during a raid on his Naseem Bagh residence here on Tuesday last also helped the sleuths to tighten the noose around the former BOPEE chairman, who is accused of having hold last year's CET papers to the brokers against a sum of Rs 65 lakh. In its status report filed before the High Court, the Crime Branch has said that out of 297 selected candidates, records of first 40 candidates were securitized as so far as their academic merit before selection and during MBBS course 2012-13 was concerned.
"It was revealed that 15 of them had not been allowed to sit in the first year MBBS examination as they had failed in the sessionals (internal assessment test). This created a strong suspicious that officers/officials of BOPEE, in league with Farooq Ahmad Itoo, had by abuse of their official position, fraudulently and dishonestly, made available the question papers to the beneficiaries during the conduct of CET examination 2012." |
