Early Times Report
Srinagar, Nov 28: Crime Branch of police today seized a bank locker in the name of former Board of Professional Entrance Examinations (BOPEE) chairman Mushtaq Ahmad Peer, who is accused of having sold last year's CET papers to students against hefty sums.
Official sources said that sleuths of Crime Branch carried out the raid at HDFC bank, Kothibagh here in Srinagar today afternoon and seized the jewellery worth Rs. 25 lakhs from the locker of Peer. Recovery, sources said, was made after the CB sleuths received specific inputs about it.
"Besides it, parents of two students, who are suspected to have bought entrance papers, were questioned at Rajbagh office. They hail from Anantnag district," sources said. Meanwhile, a court of Sub-Judicial Magistrate remanded one of the accused arrested, Sajad Ahmad Bhat of Kulgam to 15 days judicial remand.
Peer was arrested Saturday last in connection with selling of CET paper 2012, after he visited the headquarters of the Crime Branch at Rajbagh here. He has been booked under sections 420 (cheating) 120B (criminal conspiracy) and section 5(1) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, in an FIR (24/2013) registered by the Crime Branch.
The scam surfaced in June this year when an anonymous complainant had accused Peer and his accomplices of selling papers to at least a dozen aspirants against hefty sums. Acting swiftly, Special Secretary to Government General Administration Department on July 26 last ordered an enquiry by the Crime Branch.
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