Answer-sheet tampering: Police hunt for institute head, middleman

Sunit Dhawan

Tribune News Service

Rohtak, March 23

The police have launched a hunt for the remaining suspects in the B.Tech answer-sheet tampering case. Police teams have been dispatched to arrest the institute director and the middleman involved in the racket.

The CIA-3 wing of the district police had unearthed the racket of failed B.Tech students getting passed after their marks in the answer-sheets sent for re-checking/reevaluation were increased. The teacher(s), who got the answer-sheets for rechecking/ reevaluation, used to charge Rs 40,000 to Rs 50,000 per student through a middleman.

CIA-3 in-charge Inspector Lalit Kumar said that the students, who paid money, were shown all answer-sheets and told to identify theirs by their handwriting as the university authorities conceal their roll numbers before sending the answer-sheets for re-checking/re-evaluation.

“Once the student identified his handwriting, he was handed over the answer-sheet to write more answers. Then, he was given more marks for the answers written in this manner,” the police officer said.

The police had arrested three persons, including Pawan Sangwan, an assistant professor at Department of Civil Engineering of Baba Mast Nath University (BMNU) here.

However, BMNU Vice-Chancellor Ram Sajan Pandey said that Sangwan was a guest teacher and was engaged as and when required. He had been relieved before the matter came to light. “He is not a staff member of the university and we have nothing to do with him,” he added.

According to police sources, the officials concerned of Maharshi Dayanand University here used to send B.Tech (Civil Engineering) answer-sheets to VK Ahuja, the director of an institute in Julana, for rechecking/ reevaluation. Ahuja reportedly used to send the answer-sheets to Sangwan.

Vineet Dahiya, whose private office is located near the BMNU, used to act as a middleman and contact students who had failed in the exams and had applied for rechecking/ reevaluation of their answer-sheets. While Sangwan has been arrested, police teams are on the look out for Ahuja and Dahiya.