Case against 23 over CSIR NET ‘cheating’, 7 of them held | India News – Times of India

MEERUT: A day after Uttar Pradesh STF busted an organised cheating network during CSIR National Eligibility Test (NET) at a university in Meerut, the local police on Saturday registered a case against 23 persons – university employees, solvers and candidates, including 11 female students from UP and Haryana – under BNS sections 318 (cheating), 338 (forgery), 61 (2) (criminal conspiracy), 111 (organised crime) and several provisions of UP Public Examination (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 1998.Seven of them were subsequently arrested.
ASP (UP STF), Brijesh Singh, who headed the operation in Meerut, said, “During questioning, it came to light that the organised criminal network helped 35 applicants in the first and second days of the exam (31 on Thursday and four on Friday). We’ve been able to apprehend four applicants so far and identified another 12 against whom an FIR has been registered. Investigation is on to identify the others involved.”
On Friday, UP STF seized several electronic devices, including a laptop, five CPUs, two bootable USB drives, along with exam-related documents and personal identification cards. As per preliminary probe details, Arun Sharma, the university’s IT manager, received Rs 50,000 per exam paper, while his aides were paid Rs 10,000 each.
Currently, raids are on to apprehend other members of the gang, police said.