Leh, Feb 28: Leh Police on Tuesday cracks KVS Recruitment online exam scam; 1 among six accused arrested.
An official said that on 21st Feb 2023, Police Post Housing Colony Leh received a written complaint from Pradeep Kumar JNV teacher who was discharging his duties as an observer for the KVS recruitment exam 2022 *(recruitment for the KV Teachers)*.
He mentioned in his complaint that while the exam was being conducted in GCOM computer centerLeh, the site supervisor Namely Adnan Ansari R/O Bihar was caught clicking pictures of the computer in which question papers were visible.
The complainant suspected some foul play with the apprehension that the fairness of the examination may have been compromised.
Accordingly, he informed Police Post Housing Colony and a preliminary enquiry was conducted, during the preliminary enquiry it was found that Adnan Ansari who worked as site supervisor of Aptech company which has been hired by CBSE to conduct the said examination and it was his duty to conduct the examination in Leh from 9th Feb to 9th March 2023.
He clicked the photos and sent the same to Mr. Diwakar Singh R/O Delhi, who work as a staff for Lamdon online assessment center situated in Leh.
On further enquiry Diwakar Singh revealed that he was instructed by Vijay Kumar R/O Rohtak, Haryana to get the photos from Adnan Ansari and send to CBSE as a complaint so that they will change the examination center from GCOM to Lamdon computer lab.
It is pertinent to mention here that Vijay Kumar along with Shivam is the owner of the Lamdon computer lab and has taken the place on rent to start the lab since 2019.
Diwakar further revealed that the same examination was conducted in Lamdon computer lab from 9th Feb to 14th Feb 2023 and then the centerwas changed to GCOM computer center where the examination was resumed from 17th feb till 21st feb as it was found that in Lamdon computer lab when the examination was being conducted in the given dates, then some ‘set’ of candidates were brought (all non local) by Vijay’s partner and they were helped to ‘qualify’ the papers.
On this revelation FIR No 25/2023 under relevant section of law has been registered at P/S Leh and investigation was taken up by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by Add. SP Leh.
During the investigation it was also found that the Lamdon lab owners including the accused used the remote access/ control software along with the Aptech company exam software which was pre-embedded in the computer systems to make a live screen sharing possible while the candidate is present physically at the examination center and he/she logins the examination portal, the accused persons are able to get the simultaneous feed and they also can remotely enter the answers and submit the paper.
They are using very sophisticated means of hardware and software to help the candidates in cheating the exam paper. AlsoLeh Police with the help of experts from I-4C Delhi have gathered sufficient technical evidences which is to be sent for forensic examination for further analysis.
Talking to Rising Kashmir SSP Leh P.D Nitiya said that 06 accused persons have been identified so far who are running this racket and identification of more accused persons is under process.
They have been identified as Vijay Kumar R/O Rohtak,Shivam, Abhishek, Ravi Joon, Rohit Dahiya all the residents of Haryana ,and Rahul Joon a resident Jhajjar
She said that 06 alleged accused persons are on run and police teams have been constituted to arrest them at the earliest.
She further said that further investigation has been taken up by the Police.
