JEE Main Ramgarh Exam Cancelled Amidst Computer Tampering Allegations

Ramgarh: The JEE (Main) at Ramgarh-based Radha Govind University has been cancelled and candidates who were to appear for the exam there will be relocated to different centres outside the district, officials said on Wednesday.

The development comes in the wake of the arrest of three persons, including a university staffer, on March 29 for allegedly tampering with computers at the library ahead of the exam. A search is on for others involved in the incident, police said on Wednesday. Sources claimed that the the role of a few university management staff are also under the scanner.

Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday, university officials confirmed the cancellation of the exam at the centre, attributing it to ‘less’ students. Nirmal Kumal Mandal, registrar of the private university, said, “We received a mail from the authorised agency for conducting JEE (Main) informing that the examination centre at RGU has been cancelled for less count,” he said.

Police said that they have launched a manhunt to arrest the absconding accused in connection to the alleged computer tampering case. The absconders included Rajesh Thakur and Ravi Shankar of the company responsible for conducting the exams at this centre. Others included Ravi Shankar from Ormanjhi (Ranchi), Kaku from Bihar’s Chapra, among others.

Ramgarh sub-divisional officer (SDO) Anurag Kumar Tiwari submitted his findings after conducting a probe in connection with the incident to Ramgarh deputy commissioner Faiz Aq Ahmed Mumtaz, who forwarded the report to the National Testing Agency (NTA), which conducts JEE.

Police had registered a case on March 30 under sections 318(4), 338, 336(3), 340(2),111(3) and 61 of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and under sections 65, 66, 66(3), 70 and 848 of the Information Technology Act, 2000, against seven and other unknown persons on the basis of a complaint filed by Mandal, police said.