The Engineering, Agriculture and Medical Common Entrance Test (EAMCET-2) was conducted on July 9 and the results were declared on July 14.
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Each student involved in the issue said to have paid between Rs 30 Lakh to 50 Lakh.
The police have arrested four people including Rajgopal Reddy in this regard.
The gang is believed to have leaked all the three sets of papers (usually, three sets of papers are prepared and the actual set is announced on the day of the exam) and prepared the students with the answers. The findings of the Crime Investigation Department (CID), which probed the leak, might put thousands of students in a quandary and Telangana director general of police (DGP) Anurag Sharma is expected to submit the CID report to the government either on Thursday or Friday. Rajagopal was arrested in the 2014 PG medical entrance question paper leak case too.
The CID sleuths reportedly grilled Venkat Rao and Ramesh, brokers of certain education consultancies from the city, who allegedly contacted several students who appeared for the Eamcet-II offering the leaked question paper.
The Main Key Person Behind This Leakage is Rajagopal Reddy, who runs Usha Education Consultancy in Bangalore was involved in 2012 PG medical entrance exam leakage also Reddy Collected almost Rs 30 Lakh to 50 Lakh From the students who involved in this mass malpractice.
Investigators confronted the brokers with cell phone call recordings handed over to them by the parents of some students. After “preparation”, they flew back to Hyderabad and some of them even went straight to the examination centre from the RGI Airport. The police have gathered primary evidence which reveal that the paper had leaked from Delhi Printing press. Police said the brokers had planned to earn over Rs 15 crore and took advance amounts ranging between Rs 10 lakh and Rs 30 lakh from each student.
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According to sources, the parent of a student who secured top rank in internal tests at the Vijayawada-based Brilliant Medical Academy that imparts coaching for medical stream under the Eamcet examination grew suspicious after his daughter, a bright student, secured 4,000 rank in Eamcet 2. Thus, most of the students under suspicion have secured below 2,000 rank in Telangana as against their above 20,000 ranks in Andhra test. Over 60 students were under the scanner for huge discrepancy in their ranks in Eamcet I and II. They are also in hunt for some more suspects.
