Question papers of three subjects of the ongoing II PU exams have leaked, claimed the city police on Thursday.
While Central Crime Branch (CCB) police said that they had arrested three persons who claimed to have sold physics, maths and biology question papers on Wednesday, the authorities have confirmed that only physics and mathematics question papers had leaked resulting in a massive disruption in the exam schedule.
The physics exam scheduled for Thursday and maths for Tuesday were postponed in the last minute in the wake of the paper leakage reports; the biology exam was conducted on March 16.
Joint commissioner of police (crimeeast ) B Dayanand told TOI that the "biology question paper the arrested trio claimed to have sold tallied with the original one."
However, the Department of PU Education denied any such leak.
CCB police have recovered copies of physics question papers from the arrested . The accused have been identified as realtors N Ranjith (27) of Banashankari , Sudarshan (34) from Chelumaranahalli in Hoskote and Ashwaththanarayana Gowda (45) who runs a hardware shop in Jangama Kote near Sidlaghatta.
Preliminary investigations revealed Gowda first laid his hands on the original question paper. "He gave it to Ranjith , who sold it at Rs 40,000 apiece with help from Sudarshan," police sources told TOI. Dayanand said they are interrogating Ashwaththanarayana Gowda to know from where he got the papers.
However, he said it is too early to comment on the involvement of the Department of PU Education. "But yes, we strongly suspect the department members' hand as leakage cannot be possible without their connivance," he said.
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