Key Points :
- The implicated had scored 99.8 percent in the exam, which is the footing for admission in India’s elite engineering colleges, including the prestigious IITs.
- The candidate, Neel Nakshatra Das, his father, Dr Jyotirmoy Das, and three employees of a testing centre Hamendra Nath Sarma, Pranjal Kalita and Hirulal Pathak have been arrested.
- A police complaint in this regard was filed by a man named Mitradev Sharma last week.
Guwahati Police said that the topper of the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE Mains) in Assam, his father and three others have been arrested for allegedly using a substitute to appear for the nation’s prime engineering entrance test.The implicated had scored 99.8 percent in the exam, which is the footing for admission in India’s elite engineering colleges, including the prestigious IITs.The Guwahati police added that the candidate, Neel Nakshatra Das, his father, Dr Jyotirmoy Das, and three employees of a testing centre Hamendra Nath Sarma, Pranjal Kalita and Hirulal Pathak have been arrested.They appeared in a local court yesterday.
A police complaint in this regard was filed by a man named Mitradev Sharma last week, after a phone call recording and WhatsApp chat in which the implicated allegedly talks about having used unfair means to ace the exam surfaced on social media.The police stated that invigilator had allegedly aided the JEE aspirant in cheating. The accused went inside the testing centre on the day of the exam just to fill his name and roll number on the answer sheet, the police added, adding the test was written by a proxy outside.
The Assam Police have informed the National Testing Agency (NTA) about the incident. As of now ,the examination centre has been sealed and the management has been summoned.
