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Monday, Apr 26, 2004

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Paper leak case: Ex-students of coaching institute under scanner

By Devesh K. Pandey

NEW DELHI, APRIL 25. All those who passed various entrance tests in the past four years after taking coaching from the Delhi branches of Sachdeva New P.T. College, whose assistant manager had allegedly struck a deal for the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) All India Pre-Medical Test papers from the main accused, Hemant Sharma, are now under the police scanner.

The Crime Branch have started conducting raids at all the eight branches of Sachdeva College across Delhi to seize documents and registers containing records of students. As part of the operation, a police team today mounted a raid at the institute's Patel Nagar office and seized some documents.

All these exercises are meant to gather more clues on suspected links of institute officials with paper leak rackets and to prepare a list of its students who made it to premier institutions by clearing entrance tests over the past four years. The police would try to find out whether any of the students had got the question papers of the examinations from the institute beforehand.

The police today also raided the residence of the institute head, Sudheer Sachdeva, in whose presence his assistant manager, N.K. Thaplu, had allegedly struck the deal for the PMT papers with Hemant, a junior assistant with the Confidential Branch of CBSE, who had allegedly leaked the questions.

After the revelation that Thaplu had struck the deal with Hemant in Sachdeva's presence, the Crime Branch has so far sent two notices to him asking him to join the investigations. On his continued non-appearance, the police now plans to move the court to secure a non-bailable warrant against him. "We need to interrogate him to find out whether the institute had previously procured question papers of other entrance examinations," said a senior police officer.

While four of the accused -- Vikas, Rakesh, Kuldeep Tyagi and Banni Gautam -- were today sent to judicial custody, the police have been desperately mounting raids for two other accused, two of whom had procured the question papers from Hemant through his accomplice, Parimal Thakur. One of them is Parimal's nephew who is believed to be active in the paper leaking business for the past six years.

He has been changing his hideout at quick intervals and is suspected to be travelling mainly by air. The police are right now putting more effort on recovering the CD from Parimal's nephew in which Hemant had downloaded the questions. Some more arrests in the case are likely soon.

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