Impostors appearing for CPMT exam arrested

Aliganj police arrested five persons who were appearing in CPMT examination in the name of other people here on Thursday. Those nabbed identified themselves as Amit Kumar Koniyar, Sudhir, Jitendra Pal Singh, Jitendra Kumar Sharma and Satyendra Kumar. All of them were nabbed from Kendriya Vidyalaya and Public Service Commission.

During the initial interrogation from them police came to know that all of them hailed from a different city and had no connection with each other. Amit is from Motihari in Bihar, Sudhir from Khatripur in Ghosi Mau, Jitendra Pal Singh from Jhansi, Hitendra Kumar Sharma from Banda and Satyendra from Kheri in Lakh Sarai of Bihar.

Police said that substantial details about how Amit committed the crime was known but investigations were on with regards to the involvement of others in the similar crime.

ASP and circle officer (CO) Aliganj, Shalabh Mathur said that Amit was appearing in the examination in place of Vijay Kumar of Jaunpur district. With regards to the family background of Amit, Shalabh added that he was the son of a farmer and last year had cleared the examination of CET Karnataka. Since his family is financially weak he could not pay the fees of the institute in which he got the admission.

Coincidentally he met a boy, Deepu in Patna who told him that if he appears for the medical entrance examination in place of his friend, Vijay Kumar, he would pay him Rs 1.50 lakh in order to complete his studies.

The sum promised to be paid was to be delivered only on the condition if the impostor cleared the examination. Amit left Bihar from Shramjeevi Express two days ago and then after collecting the admit card from Vijay came to Lucknow to sit for the test.

It was during the checking when the photograph on the admit card which was of Amit did not match the photograph with the authorities which was of Vijay. Amit confessed his crime in front of the Aliganj police but claimed that he committed the crime for the first time and had no idea if Deepu and Vijay had committed the crime previously too.

About the arrest of the other four, police said that investigations were on but they were initially taken into custody as they could not give satisfactory answers to the authorities concerned with regards to marks obtained in intermediate examination.

Shalabh Mathur said they were waiting for an official complaint from the medical authorities to come out with some thing substantial with regards to remaining four in custody.link

Special prelims for select BPSC candidates

The Patna High Court on Tuesday directed the Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) to conduct a special preliminary test for the 48th to 52nd combined competitive examinations for state civil services for only those 94 candidates who had raised objections regarding wrong questions and answers.

A division bench comprising Justice S K Katariar and Justice K K Mandal, however, allowed BPSC to conduct the mains of the 48th to 52nd combined competitive examinations on the basis of the results of the preliminary test published earlier.

Giving the verdict on the Letters Patent Appeal (LPA) of BPSC, the division bench “modified” an earlier order of a single bench presided over by Justice Navin Sinha wherein he had set aside the entire preliminary test results and directed BPSC to hold the prelims afresh. The modified order means only a special test for the group of 94.

Pleading for BPSC, advocate general P K Shahi submitted that the 94 candidates appearing at the preliminary test held earlier ought to have raised objections soon after having gone through the questions. He added that instructions in this regard had been given in the questions.link