9th arrest in univ engg answer paper scam

MUMBAI: Another Mumbai University staffer allegedly involved in the engineering exam scam was arrested by the Bhandup police on Sunday.
The police probing the case are baffled as they have come across the names of five students who have always been toppers and never got ATKT. Anil Singh, a temporary peon with the university for six years, was produced before the Mulund court, which remanded him to police custody.Singh is believed to have taken out five applied mathematics papers for mechanical engineering and given them to touts, who gave them to students to rewrite.
“We are questioning him for the names of touts, and then we will go on to the students who paid him," said investigating officer Shiv Bhosle. His colleague is absconding since the scam was unearthed. The police have so far questioned 66 engineering students whose papers were missing. “We were shocked looking at the backgrounds of few students as they always topped the class," said Bhosle.
The police have blamed university officials for inadequate security, even during transportation from the exam hall to the varsity's strong room. The university wrote to the police last week that another 32 answer-sheets of engineering students were missing, besides the 31 reported earlier.
The police had, on a tip-off last month, arrested the university's custodian of answer-sheets, Prabhakar Vaze, three clerks and four peons hired on contract for their involvement in the scam to increase scores of first year engineering students.