5 Held For Leaking OU Question Paper

Sleuths of the Central Crime Station on Monday took into custody 5 persons on charges of leaking the B. Com. (Taxation) examination question papers.

According to the police, the accused were identified as Raunak Kumar Agarwal, R Pawan Kumar, D Srikanth, Ibrahim and Vishal Jain.

Giving further details, the police said that the case came to light when S Shivraj, a Professor of the Department of Chemistry, Osmania University, who is also the Controller Of Examinations, lodged a complaint at CCS (DD) Hyderabad.

Professor Shivraj stated in his complaint that he had received a phone call from the Vice-Principal of Jagruti Degree And PG College (Narayanguda), D Josephine, on 9th April 2011 at about 1:45pm. "Josephine told me that a police inspector had approached her, and had told her that the B. Com. II year (Taxation) question paper was leaked," he said.

Josephine had also informed Professor Shivraj that inspector Raja Venkat Reddy of the West Zone Task Force had brought along a photocopy of the leaked question paper with him.

When it was found out that the paper was indeed leaked, Professor Shivraj lodged a formal complaint with the police.

Based on the complaint, the CCS sleuths traced and arrested the 4 accused, and seized more copies of the leaked question papers from their possession. The case is under further investigation, the inspector said. (INN)