Did the same group leak both Eco, Maths question papers?

New Delhi: After the arrest of three men from Himachal Pradesh for leaking the CBSE Class XII Economics exam paper, the Crime Branch of Delhi Police is now investigating to see whether the same accused also leaked the Class X Mathematics paper.

Police claimed that during interrogation, the accused told cops that they were confident that they will not be caught.

Police sources told Millennium Post they have reason to believe that the three accused Rakesh Kumar, Amit Sharma and Ashok might be involved in the second paper leak, which is been investigated by police.

"We are probing the case from several angles and one of them is whether the accused were involved in the Maths paper leak," said a Crime Branch investigator.

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) had received an e-mail a day before the Class X Mathematics exam, held on March 28, informing them of the paper being leaked.

The sender of the e-mail had stated that the Maths paper was leaked through WhatsApp and that the exam should be cancelled.

The mail also contained 12 images of the handwritten Mathematics exam paper.

According to police, the three accused, during interrogation, claimed that they were confident of not being caught by police, as they had deleted all their WhatsApp messages tracing back to the paper leak and returned to their daily jobs.

"After investigating more than 40 WhatsApp groups, we came to know about a person in Panchkula. And when the team further investigated, they came to know about the accused. We raided two places in Himachal Pradesh and arrested the accused," police said.

Police further claimed that Amit Sharma and Ashok were good friends of Kumar and, due to their friendship, they helped him in stealing the Economics paper.

The Crime Branch team will now take all three accused to Una in Himachal Pradesh. "We will reconstruct the sequence of events for further details," said an investigator.

The Crime Branch team, led by Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) G Ram Gopal Naik, has so far busted two modules of the paper leak.

Earlier, with the arrest of three men, including two teachers of a private school in outer Delhi's Bawana, police had, on April 1, claimed to have busted a module in which the teachers had shared WhatsApp images of the Economics paper one-and-a-half hour prior to the exam.

The accused were identified as Rishabh (29) and Rohit (26), both teachers at a private school in Bawana, and Tauqeer (26) a tutor at a private coaching centre in the same area.

Police claimed that in both the modules, more than 150 persons have been questioned.