Broker provided paper 48 hours before exam

Hyderabad: MBBS aspirants, who secured good ranks in Eamcet-2 through fraudulent means, came in contact with broker Rajagopal Reddy when they were looking for management quota seats in Karnataka and Maharashtra a few months ago.
During their negotiations, the broker gave them an enticing offer, providing the Eamcet-2 question paper for a price and that too 48 hours prior to the exam.As the students found that the proposition was economical compared to spending crores of rupees on management quota seats, they fell for Rajagopal's offer.
"Rajagopal is a broker for many medical colleges in Karnataka. So, many students and their parents used to contact him. Fifteen days prior to the Eamcet-2 exam, the gang members laid their hands on the question paper and offered to provide it to students and their parents," a top source in the Telangana police told TOI.
Rajagopal Reddy, in his confession to the investigators, claimed they used a two-stage process in the execution of the fraud. Rajagopal Reddy and his associates used to contact prospective students and move them to hotels and safe houses in Karnataka, Mumbai or Andhra Pradesh.
"When the students were in their rooms, a few persons came and started giving instructions. One of them shared the questions, written on a paper," the official said. The students were shown questions with a 'tick' on the right choice for about four to five hours before it was taken back from them.
"We are now looking for the people who came and gave the questions to exactly know how the paper was leaked. Rajagopal claims he is ignorant about how the paper came out. However, at this stage, we do not believe his version," the official added.
Interestingly, the culprits did not share the complete question paper, fearing that it would get into public domain soon. As a result, people who could memorise more questions performed better and secured good ranks.
CID officials said that the owner of a private printing press in Delhi, where the question paper is suspected to have leaked, denied the allegations. On the other hand, JNTU authorities claim that except the Eamcet convener, no one was privy to the information about where the question paper was being printed.
It appears that Rajagopal and others are part of a larger pan-India network and thus knew someone in the printing press, who had been leaking question papers of various exams. Incidentally, Rajagopal had mobilised students on one or two occasions earlier, but failed to lay his hands on the Karnataka medical entrance test paper.