Court sends Russian national to CBI custody in JEE-Mains forgery case

October 04, 2022 21:31

Accused Mikhail Shargin (middle)/ANI

A Delhi court on Tuesday sent a Russian national, arrested for alleged manipulation of Joint Entrance Examination-Mains last year, to two days' CBI custody.

Duty magistrate Vaibhav Mehta sent the accused, Mikhail Shargin, to CBI custody till October 6 after he was produced before the court and the agency requested for his remand to unravel the conspiracy.

This court is of the view that for the purpose of carrying out investigation PC (police custody) remand of the accused is necessary and so this court partly allows the application moved by the IO and grants police custody remand of the accused for two days only, the judge said.

In its application seeking a five-day remand of the accused, the CBI told the court he was to be quizzed about the data present in his phone, laptop and external hard disk.

The central agency had issued a 'look out circular' against Shargin, suspected to be main hacker, for alleged manipulation of the prestigious examination, the CBI said.

The CBI said it was alerted by the Bureau of Immigration when Shargin arrived at the airport from Almaty, Kazakhstan, adding he was immediately detained by the agency on his arrival here on Monday.

"During investigation, it came to light that some foreign nationals were involved in compromising many online examinations, including JEE (Mains), colluding with other accused in the instant case," the CBI said.

The investigation indicated Shargin tampered with the iLeon software, the platform on which the JEE-Main-2021 examination was conducted, and also helped other accused in hacking the computer systems of suspect candidates during the examination, it said. -- PTI

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