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BOPEE paper leak scam Court declares 14 accused as proclaimed offenders
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Wednesday, 26 March 2014
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Srinagar: A city court on
Wednesday declared 14 accused including six student and eight parent
involved in the Board of Professional Entrance Examination
(BOPEE) paper leak scam of 2012 as proclaimed offenders. Sources told KNS that
if they fail to appear before the April 24 as has been directed by
the court, their properties can be attached by the Crime Branch.
Notice to this effect has been issued by the court and
the matter has been listed for hearing on April 24. It may be recalled
that the High Court had also directed the Crime Branch to use its tools to
arrest the absconding student beneficiaries involved in the scam.
On March 1, the Crime Branch had filed supplementary
charge sheet against 19 accused
in CET—2012 paper leak scam. This charge sheet against 19
accused included six students and nine parents of students who allegedly
benefited out of the paper leak scam in 2012.
The 19 accused against whom the supplementary charge
sheet was filed also included Mushtaq Ahmad Baqaal, alias Pir the former
Chairman BOPEE, Sajad Ahmad and Haroon.
The Crime Branch later filed a supplementary charge
sheet against three more students in a juvenile court here. On February
22, the anti corruption court here had rejected bail
applications of all the accused including Mushtaq Pir, former chairman BOPEE
sofar arrested in the matter.
On February 17, in compliance to
the high court directions, the BOPEE cancelled admissions of
12 students who had allegedly purchased papers prior to the conduct
of CET in 2012. The admissions of the 12 beneficiary
students were cancelled as their names surface in the Crime Branch list
of students who secured admissions in government medical college here
after purchasing the CET question papers two years ago.
Six of them are presently lodged in Central Jail here
while fresh arrest warrants have been issued against three others—two of
them girls—by the Court. The three remaining beneficiaries are
minors (below 18-years of age) and they have been lodged in juvenile home,
sources in crime branch had said.
The High Court had earlier censured BOPEE for
its ‘snail pace’ shown in prerequisite legal formalities for cancellation
of admissions of tainted candidates. The court had said
that nobody would be allowed to reap fruits
of CET-2012paper leak scam. Since
the high court is scheduled to hear the matter on Tuesday,
the BOPEE filed its status report informing
the court about cancellation of admissions. (KNS)
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