JEE paper leak case: Last year, a case of software hacking and rigging came to the fore during the JEE-Main exam (JEE paper leak case). The investigation of the case was started by the CBI. After investigating the case for more than a year, the CBI has managed to arrest the accused in the JEE-Mains Exam 2021 cheating case. CBI has arrested a Russian national mastermind hacker in this case. A person named Mikhail Shargin is being investigated for his involvement in the case. The CBI had issued a ‘look out circular’ against a foreign national, Mikhail Shargin.
Giving information about this, the officials said that when the Russian nationals reached the airport from abroad, the central agencies had alerted the CBI. He said the CBI immediately arrested the man and took him into custody at the airport on charges of tampering in the JEE (Main)-2021 examination. Investigation of the case revealed that a Russian national was the master hacker. This foreign national is the main accused in this exam scam. who had tampered with the exam conducting software iLeon and helped other accused in hacking the computer systems of suspected candidates during the examination.
online software tampering
Earlier, the CBI had arrested 7 people in this scam. It was also revealed that a Russian national was involved in a case of software hacking and manipulation during the JEE-Main exam. The same person tampered with the online software that conducts JEE (Main)-2021 exam. He had helped other accused in hacking the computer system of suspected candidates during the examination. In September last year, the CBI had registered a case against Affinity Education and its three directors, Siddharth Krishna, Vishwambhar Mani Tripathi and Govind Varshney, along with other touts and associates, for allegedly rigging the exam.
tampering with exam by taking money
The three directors are accused of rigging the JEE Main online exam in connivance with other associates and touts, extorting huge sums of money from candidates and getting them admitted into the country’s premier National Institute of Technology. In this case, the question papers of the applicants were being solved with the help of technology from the Selective Examination Center located in Sonipat, Haryana.
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