Parmesh S JAIN
Initiating investigations into the Assistant professor question paper leak case,the Malleshwaram police on Monday taken the prime accused into custody for questioning .
The police have also summoned 300 candidates who have appeared for the geography paper which has been leaked at 8.30 am much before the commencement of the exam.
The prime accused R Soumya,32,a PhD student was allegedly the first person to receive a set of 18 questioned on her mobile phone before the exam,which he had circulated to different numbers on Whatsapp numbers.
The same set of questions appeared in the exam scheduled on March 14 this year conducted by the the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA), which had conducted the exam for the recruitment of assistant professors in government degree colleges.
Based on the complaint filed by Executive Director of KEA, the Malleshwaram police on Friday registered a case against Soumya R and others charging them under IT act and also under cheating and criminal conspiracy and arrested her.
The police produced Soumya before the court and taken into custody to ascertain the source of the leak and the people behind the conspiracy and her network .
