HYDERABAD: The Telangana Crime Investigation Department (CID), probing the leak of the Telangana state Eamcet II-2016 medical question papers, on Thursday arrested two more persons in the connection.
The two arrested include Veleti Vasu Babu (50), dean of Sri Chaitanya Junior College, Chaitanyapuri and Kamma Venkata Sivanarayana (54), an agent for admissions in Narayana and Chaitanya Colleges, and a resident of Guntur, for their involvement in obtaining leaked question papers and circulating among the students. The duo allegedly indulged in the fraud to bring fame to their institutions by securing good scores for their students in Eamcet exam.
There are at least 90 accused in the paper leak case and 64 have been arrested so far.
The investigating officer and SP, CID, J Parimala Hana Nutan said Vasu Babu, who is incharge for six campuses, and Siva Naryana Rao is an agent for Narayana and Chaitanya Colleges for admission into Intermediate course in Guntur.
“During the probe, we found from the call data records of Vasu Babu and Siva Narayana Rao that they were very much in touch with the accused persons Dr Dhananjay, Tauqeer and Dr Sandeep Kumar, who conducted preparation camp with leaked Eamcet medical question paper in Bhubaneswar,’’ the CID officials said.
The duo met the accused several times during February to July 2016, police said.
“Vasu Babu and Siva Narayana arranged six students for the camp in Bhubneswar and made preparation with leaked question paper along with other students who were brought by other agents. All the six students wrote the entrance exam on July 9, 2016 and three students got good ranks as the entrance paper was tallied with the leaked paper,’’ the investigation officials said. The accused had collected `35 lakh from each student.
On July 25, 2016, the CID had registered a case. Since then, around 60 persons (brokers and sub-brokers) have been arrested. The probe revealed that some students appearing for TS Eamcet-II -2016 (medical) from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh were taken to camps set up in at least five cities prior to the exam. They were given practice with the leaked copies of question papers comprising 320 questions .
TS Eamcet
Engineering, Agriculture and Medical Common Entrance Test (Eamcet-II) was conducted on July 9, 2016 and the results were declared on July 14. The examination was conducted by JNTU-H