CBI arrests mastermind in AIIMS nursing officer recruitment paper leak case
Jun 22, 2023
New Delhi [India], June 22 : The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday arrested the mastermind in a case related to the alleged leak of a question paper of the Nursing Officer Recruitment Common Entrance Test (NORCET-4).
The arrested accused have been identified as Navneet. He allegedly played a role and is stated to be the mastermind in the conspiracy. The exam was held on June 3.
The accused Manjeet Kumar, Monu Malik, Anil Kumar and Paramveer, candidate, were arrested earlier.
The arrested accused will be produced before the Designated Court in Delhi on Friday.
A case was registered on June 9 against a private person and others on a complaint from AIIMS, New Delhi. The AIIMS, New Delhi had conducted NORCET-4 (Nursing Officer Recruitment Common Entrance Test) at over 300 Centers across India for the recruitment of 3055 Nursing Officers for all AIIMS in India and some government hospitals in Delhi.
It was alleged that by the evening of June 5, some tweets were being circulated on social media claiming the purported leakage of the question paper of NORCET-4.
It was further alleged that the modus-operandi used by the accused was to replace the TFT (computer monitor) assigned to the candidate with a doctored monitor brought into the lab from outside by an accomplice. After examination, the doctored monitors were allegedly removed from the centre. Through the doctored monitor, the computer display of the candidates was duplicated giving remote access to the accused.
Searches were earlier conducted at five places including in Haryana, Chandigarh, Mohali and Delhi at the premises of the accused and also at the examination Centre (at Mohali).
During searches, the NVR (Network Video Recorder) containing CCTV footage, server laptops, CPUs of identified candidates, various mobile phones and dubious TFTs were recovered.
During the investigation, four accused including the candidate were earlier arrested. After Police Custody, they were sent to Judicial Custody by the Designated Court.
