JEE-Mains exam case: Court sends Russian national to CBI custody till October 6

A Delhi court on Tuesday sent a Russian national arrested for alleged manipulation of JEE Mains examination last year to two days CBI custodyDuty Magistrate Vaibhav Mehta sent the accused Mikhail Shargin to CBI custody till October 6 after he was produced before the court and the agency requested for his remand to unravel the conspiracyThis court is of the view that for the purpose of carrying out investigation PC police custody remand of the accused is necessary and so this court partly allows the application moved by the IO and grants police custody remand of the accused for two days only the judge saidIn its application seeking a fiveday remand of the accused the CBI told the court he was to be quizzed about the data present in his phone laptop and external hard diskThe central agency had issued a Look Out Circular against Shargin suspected to be main hacker for alleged manipulation of the prestigious examination the CBI saidAlso Read UGC suggests measures to deal with ragging on university campusesThe CBI said it was alerted by the Bureau of Immigration when Shargin arrived at the airport from Almaty Kazakhstan adding he was immediately detained by the agency on his arrival here on MondayDuring investigation it came to light that some foreign nationals were involved in compromising many online examinations including JEE Mains colluding with other accused in the instant case the CBI saidThe investigation indicated Shargin tampered with the iLeon software the platform on which the JEE Main2021 examination was conducted and also helped other accused in hacking the computer systems of suspect candidates during the examination it saidIn September last year the agency had booked Affinity Education Pvt Ltd and its three directors Siddharth Krishna Vishwambhar Mani Tripathi and Govind Varshney besides other touts and associates for alleged manipulation of examinationIt was alleged that the three directors in conspiracy with other associates and touts were manipulating the online examination of JEE Mains and facilitating aspiring students to get admission in top National Institutes of Technology in exchange for huge amounts of money They used to solve the questions through remote access from a chosen examination centre in Sonepat HaryanaIt was also alleged that the accused used to obtain class 10 and 12 mark sheets 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 1215 lakh approx per candidate the CBI saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever