CBI Files FIR Against Affinity Education For Irregularities In Ongoing JEE Mains Examination, Raids 19 Places Across Country
Mubarak Ansari
Pune/New Delhi, 2 September 2021: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case against a private company and others including its Directors and three employees, private persons(conduits) etc on the allegations of irregularities being committed in the ongoing JEE (Mains) Exams 2021 by a private educational institution, its directors, their touts/associates & staff posted at the examination centre and other unknown persons.
The FIR has been registered against M/s Affinity Education Pvt. Ltd and others including its Directors – Siddharth Krishna,
Vishwambhar Mani Tripathi and Govind Varshney.
According to CBI, the said company and its Directors were manipulating the online examination of JEE (Mains) and facilitating aspiring students to get admission in top NITs in consideration of huge amount by solving the question paper of the applicant through remote access from a chosen examination centre in Sonepat(Haryana).
It was also alleged that the accused used to obtain Xth and XIIth mark sheets, the User IDs, Passwords, and Post Dated Cheques of aspiring students in different parts of the country as security and once admission was done, they used to collect heavy amount ranging from 12-15 Lakh (approx) per candidate.
Searches are being conducted today at 19 places including at Delhi and NCR, Pune, Jamshedpur, Indore and Bangalore which led to the recovery of 25 Laptops, 7 PCs, around 30 Post-Dated Cheques along with voluminous incriminating documents/ devices including PDC’s mark sheet of different students. Several persons are being questioned, CBI officials said.
