Students involved in the recent engineering examination paper leak scam used different code words and symbols as identification marks for peons to identify their papers and sneak them out.
Students involved in the recent engineering examination paper leak scam used different code words and symbols as identification marks for peons to identify their papers and sneak them out of the university.
The students wrote names of gods, certain letters or numerals as code, as well as drew symbols on the last page of the answer sheets, sources at the University of the Mumbai revealed.
In another important development in the case, one more accused, identified as Ajinkya Rajaram Tanawde, has been arrested. Another person, who is currently on the run, is said to be the prime accused in the case. Earlier, two peons from the university were arrested by the police after the scam came to light.
University sources said that the modus operandi adopted by the accused was deceptively simple — the students while appearing for the examination would write a pre-decided code word or draw a particular symbol on the last page of the answer sheet as an identification mark. Once the examination of that particular subject was over, the answer papers were brought to the university.
Sources reveal that it was here, while the answer sheets get bundled into sets of 30 each for assessment purposes, that the crime took place. The arrested accused while sorting the bundles, removed the answer papers featuring the identification marks and subsequently snuck them out of the university.
Sources continued that the papers were handed over to the students, who would then write the correct answers on the blank pages left on the answer sheets.
“The answer sheets were then returned to these peons, who would then re-insert them into the bundles the next day,” revealed a source.
The peons allegedly got ‘good remuneration’ for it. The students who benefited from the syndicate have been identified and action will be taken against them, sources add.
Officials at Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) police station who are investigating the case, refused to comment.
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