BHOPAL: Koh-e-Fiza police on Monday booked three suspects in reference to the leak of the IELTS (Worldwide English Language Testing System) examination paper in February this yr.
IELTS is among the main English-language proficiency checks worldwide for greater training in overseas universities and world migration. Tens of hundreds take the check in India yearly and there was a 15% rise in these numbers for the reason that Covid pandemic. The plot to leak the IELTS paper was hatched three months in the past, say police. When the paper bundle reached Bhopal by flight, one of many accused, with the assistance of a cargo/courier firm worker and the proprietor of a loading automobile hooked up to the agency, took the packet from them in change of Rs 1 lakh. The racketeers scanned the paper and returned the bundle to the courier worker. Nonetheless, the agency suspected one thing was amiss and performed an inside investigation after which it filed a criticism with Koh-e-Fiza police. Police have arrested the courier worker and loading automobile proprietor and recovered Rs 80,000 from them. Groups are searching for the prime accused Deepak who purchased the papers.
Police have his cell quantity, which was issued in Uttar Pradesh, however it’s switched off.
SHO Koh-e-Fiza Vijay Sisodia mentioned that the criticism was filed by Sunil Saxena, operations supervisor of an MP Nagar-based courier agency that was employed by a Gurgaon-based firm, which organises the IELTS examination.
It despatched the query papers by flight from Gurgaon to Bhopal on February 8. The aircraft reached Bhopal on the morning of February 9. Firm worker Kapil Karan obtained the parcel on the airport and put it in a loading automobile and waited for an additional parcel coming within the subsequent flight.
The loading automobile proprietor, Sheikh Shafi, arrived on the cargo workplace within the State Hangar and requested the motive force to step out, say police. He and Kapil took the automobile to a different location the place an SUV was ready for them on a service street.
Shafi and Kapil boarded the SUV with the IELTS bundle and have been pushed to a resort in Panchvati Colony the place Kapil remained within the SUV whereas Shafi took the bag to a room on the primary flooring, say police.
There he handed the bag to Deepak, who went right into a room the place another folks have been current, mentioned police. A couple of minutes later, he returned the bag to Shafi, who took it again.
The criticism says that the automobile dropped the parcel at their firm’s workplace in Govindpura. The bag carrying IELTS papers was to be delivered on February 11 so it was saved below CCTV surveillance on the MP Nagar workplace. Two days later, one other worker of the courier firm delivered the IELTS paper bag to the examination centre in-charge. The corporate obtained a criticism the identical day from their Delhi workplace that the bag carrying IELTS query paper was tampered with.
An investigation crew of the courier firm flew down from Delhi to Bhopal and questioned Kapil after which Saxena filed the criticism. Police have booked Kapil, Shafi and Deepak. TNN
IELTS is among the main English-language proficiency checks worldwide for greater training in overseas universities and world migration. Tens of hundreds take the check in India yearly and there was a 15% rise in these numbers for the reason that Covid pandemic. The plot to leak the IELTS paper was hatched three months in the past, say police. When the paper bundle reached Bhopal by flight, one of many accused, with the assistance of a cargo/courier firm worker and the proprietor of a loading automobile hooked up to the agency, took the packet from them in change of Rs 1 lakh. The racketeers scanned the paper and returned the bundle to the courier worker. Nonetheless, the agency suspected one thing was amiss and performed an inside investigation after which it filed a criticism with Koh-e-Fiza police. Police have arrested the courier worker and loading automobile proprietor and recovered Rs 80,000 from them. Groups are searching for the prime accused Deepak who purchased the papers.
Police have his cell quantity, which was issued in Uttar Pradesh, however it’s switched off.
SHO Koh-e-Fiza Vijay Sisodia mentioned that the criticism was filed by Sunil Saxena, operations supervisor of an MP Nagar-based courier agency that was employed by a Gurgaon-based firm, which organises the IELTS examination.
It despatched the query papers by flight from Gurgaon to Bhopal on February 8. The aircraft reached Bhopal on the morning of February 9. Firm worker Kapil Karan obtained the parcel on the airport and put it in a loading automobile and waited for an additional parcel coming within the subsequent flight.
The loading automobile proprietor, Sheikh Shafi, arrived on the cargo workplace within the State Hangar and requested the motive force to step out, say police. He and Kapil took the automobile to a different location the place an SUV was ready for them on a service street.
Shafi and Kapil boarded the SUV with the IELTS bundle and have been pushed to a resort in Panchvati Colony the place Kapil remained within the SUV whereas Shafi took the bag to a room on the primary flooring, say police.
There he handed the bag to Deepak, who went right into a room the place another folks have been current, mentioned police. A couple of minutes later, he returned the bag to Shafi, who took it again.
The criticism says that the automobile dropped the parcel at their firm’s workplace in Govindpura. The bag carrying IELTS papers was to be delivered on February 11 so it was saved below CCTV surveillance on the MP Nagar workplace. Two days later, one other worker of the courier firm delivered the IELTS paper bag to the examination centre in-charge. The corporate obtained a criticism the identical day from their Delhi workplace that the bag carrying IELTS query paper was tampered with.
An investigation crew of the courier firm flew down from Delhi to Bhopal and questioned Kapil after which Saxena filed the criticism. Police have booked Kapil, Shafi and Deepak. TNN
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