The Assam Police on Wednesday arrested the topper of the Joint Entrance Examination Mains Examination, which allegedly scored 99.8% marks using an imitating device to take the exam. Police said that the topper candidate for JEE got 99.8 percent marks. The boy’s father, who is a doctor and three other companions, has also been caught in the case.
Police said that a person named Mitradev Sharma had filed a report on 23 October in this case. He told in his report that in the JEE-Mains examination held on September 5, one candidate had put the other in his place. The complaint was based on viral phone call recordings and WhatsApp chat screenshots.
In which the candidate has accepted the use of unfair means to get the highest marks. Police sources said the investigator of the examination center had helped him out of the center after writing his roll number on the answer book and signature, which was later filled by his proxy elsewhere. This gave him 99.8 percent marks.
On this complaint, the police formed an investigation team which arrested five people. The arrested candidate had shared the information about setting up another in JEE on the phone with a friend. Police has also acquired this call recording.
