Bihar cops crack solver gang scam

The Economic Offences Unit (EOU) of Bihar Police has obtained clinching evidence of the leak of the question paper of the National Eligibility-cumEntrance Test (Undergraduate), officials said on Sunday.

- Dheeraj Kumar

Baldev Kumar alias Chintu, one of the six people arrested from Deoghar district in Jharkhand on Friday night, told interrogators that he had obtained a PDF file of the question papers and answer sheets from one ‘Rocky’ from Ranchi, ahead of the examination on May 5.

Chintu had received the question papers and answer sheets on his WhatsApp and these were printed and provided to 35 candidates, who were asked to memorise them at Learn and Play School at Khemnichak in Patna, he said.

An active member of a ‘solver gang’, led by Sanjeev Singh alias Sanjeev Mukhiya alias Lutan, Chintu had first obtained the question papers and answer sheets for biology and then those for physics and chemistry, he told interrogators.

At least 12 copies of question papers and answer sheets were printed to be distributed among candidates at Learn and Play School at Khemnichak.

Rocky, from Nawada district in Bihar, who runs a restaurant on Kadru Road under Chutia police station in Ranchi, knew from where the question papers and answer sheets were obtained.