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CHENNAI: Two more engineering
college students were arrested on Sunday and 17 others were
identified to be involved in the Anna University Semester
Examination racket that rocked the State on Saturday.
While all the arrested were students of the Valliammai
Engineering College, officials said students of the SRM
Engineering College (now a deemed university) and the
Crescent Engineering College, both leading institutions, were
also involved in the tampering of answer scripts.
We have ordered verification of answer scripts on the
ongoing examination in all 10 zones of the university.
Verification of answer papers of engineering colleges in the
three Chennai Zones is over and we have found that at least
17 students of Valliammai, SRM and Crescent Engineering
Colleges were involved in it, Anna University Vice
Chancellor E Balagurusamy said.
The students had replaced the original answer scripts with
answer sheets written at home with the help of daily-wage
employees of the university. Most students had arrears in
various subjects, officials said.
University authorities were first alerted about the racket
through an anonymous e-mail addressed to the Vice Chancellor
and the Controller of Examination Jayabalan on May 5. The
same day, I asked the Controller of Examination to undertake
a random check of the answer scripts which revealed the
tampering by seven boys. Immediately, we lodged a police
complaint following which all seven students and three
employees were arrested, Balagurusamy said.
The university has also received information about the role
of an agent hailing from Andhra Pradesh in the racket and the
same has been communicated to the police.
Sleuths of the Central Crime Branch of the City Police on
Sunday said they had picked up two more students on Sunday.
The police were on the look out for the other students and
also one Vijayakumar who reportedly acted as a broker between
the students and the university employees.
According to police, Ramesh Kumar and Narendra Raghav, both
21 years, were arrested for their alleged involvement in
chasing answer papers of final year engineering examination
and replacing them with duplicates.
All the 12 arrested persons so far were produced before the
IX Metropolitan Magistrate Court in Saidapet and remanded in
judicial custody on Sunday.
Police said the students approached the daily wagers and gave
them a bribe of Rs 7.08 lakh for obtaining the answer papers.
The students, who were given 100 fresh answer books, took
them to their place, wrote the correct answers and returned
them to the employees in the examination section. The CCB
recovered 53 fresh answer books and Rs six lakh in cash from
the accused.
We have information about the involvement of more students
in the case. We will arrest them soon, CCB Assistant
Commissioner of Police M Anbumozhi said.
Inquiries revealed that one such student gave Rs 65,000 to
replace the original answer sheets with duplicate ones, the
ACP added.
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