LUCKNOW: Sleuths of crime branch arrested two persons allegedly found duping aspirants in the name of providing question papers for the Uttar Pradesh Teacher Eligibility Test, held on Sunday. However, the credibility of the entire operation has come under scanner.
Acting on a tip-off, cops nabbed two men late on Saturday night. They were later identified as Satya Bahadur Singh, a native of Pratapgarh, residing at Shalimar Apartment on Cantt Road in Kaiserbagh police station area and Ajay Kumar Singh alias Mintoo, a native of Ghazipur, residing at Rajeevnagar, Kalyanpur in Gudamba police station area.
Satya Bahadur is a primary school teacher, while Ajay is a contractor with Nirman Nigam.
Police claim that till now four persons; Manoj Singh from Ballia, Vinay Singh from Allahabad, Ishtiyaaq from Pratapgarh and Irfaan from Allahabad have been identified to have given money for the question paper.
"The names have come up on the basis of the same being mentioned in the diary recovered from Satya Bahadur Singh," the DIG said and added that the same has not been cross-checked from the persons, whose names have been mentioned in the diary.
A FIR in this regard has been registered on behalf of the Lucknow police, the DIG confirmed. However, so far no complaint has been registered by any of the 'gullible' victims, sources said.
According to the police, the two were nabbed with guess question papers of seven subjects along with their answers.
"They were selling the guess papers in the name of question papers, which they claimed would be given at UPTET exams on Sunday. However, the guess paper allegedly sold by them and the question paper distributed to the candidates at UPTET exams did not match," DIG DK Thakur said.Cash worth Rs 16 lakh and a photocopy machine were recovered from their possession, the DIG further stated.
"The money in their possession was the collection amount in exchange of the guess papers from several gullible targets. They had sold the guess papers to several persons in amount ranging anything between Rs 2 and Rs 5 lakh," Thakur said.
One of the accused Satya Bahadur, who is also said to be the kingpin of the racket, talking to reporters, said that the amount which was recovered by the police from his house was meant for the expansion of his father-in-law Lal Sheetla Sharan Singh's Siddheshwar Das Inter College, Hargaun in Sultanpur district.
Singh said that he got LIC policy maturity amount worth Rs eight lakh about a month back through HDFC bank and rest of the amount he had borrowed from his friends. Singh claimed that he had the receipt of the matured amount with him.
About the recovery of guess papers, Singh said that since he was a primary teacher and academically bright, some of his friends and acquaintances wanted him to prepare a TET examination guess paper for them. It was in this regard that he prepared a guess paper, which the police was claiming to be a bid to befool the gullible targets.
Replying to the accused claim, the DIG questioned the utility of a photocopy machine, which was also kept with them. The photocopy machine was recovered from the contractor Ajay Kumar Singh.
Acting on a tip-off, cops nabbed two men late on Saturday night. They were later identified as Satya Bahadur Singh, a native of Pratapgarh, residing at Shalimar Apartment on Cantt Road in Kaiserbagh police station area and Ajay Kumar Singh alias Mintoo, a native of Ghazipur, residing at Rajeevnagar, Kalyanpur in Gudamba police station area.
Satya Bahadur is a primary school teacher, while Ajay is a contractor with Nirman Nigam.
Police claim that till now four persons; Manoj Singh from Ballia, Vinay Singh from Allahabad, Ishtiyaaq from Pratapgarh and Irfaan from Allahabad have been identified to have given money for the question paper.
"The names have come up on the basis of the same being mentioned in the diary recovered from Satya Bahadur Singh," the DIG said and added that the same has not been cross-checked from the persons, whose names have been mentioned in the diary.
A FIR in this regard has been registered on behalf of the Lucknow police, the DIG confirmed. However, so far no complaint has been registered by any of the 'gullible' victims, sources said.
According to the police, the two were nabbed with guess question papers of seven subjects along with their answers.
"They were selling the guess papers in the name of question papers, which they claimed would be given at UPTET exams on Sunday. However, the guess paper allegedly sold by them and the question paper distributed to the candidates at UPTET exams did not match," DIG DK Thakur said.Cash worth Rs 16 lakh and a photocopy machine were recovered from their possession, the DIG further stated.
"The money in their possession was the collection amount in exchange of the guess papers from several gullible targets. They had sold the guess papers to several persons in amount ranging anything between Rs 2 and Rs 5 lakh," Thakur said.
One of the accused Satya Bahadur, who is also said to be the kingpin of the racket, talking to reporters, said that the amount which was recovered by the police from his house was meant for the expansion of his father-in-law Lal Sheetla Sharan Singh's Siddheshwar Das Inter College, Hargaun in Sultanpur district.
Singh said that he got LIC policy maturity amount worth Rs eight lakh about a month back through HDFC bank and rest of the amount he had borrowed from his friends. Singh claimed that he had the receipt of the matured amount with him.
About the recovery of guess papers, Singh said that since he was a primary teacher and academically bright, some of his friends and acquaintances wanted him to prepare a TET examination guess paper for them. It was in this regard that he prepared a guess paper, which the police was claiming to be a bid to befool the gullible targets.
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