GUWAHATI, Nov 2 - The National Testing Agency (NTA), which conducted the Joint Entrance Examination (Main), is yet to respond to the communication made by Guwahati police in connection with the scam that took place here recently.
Senior police officials said they have written to the NTA soon after the scam was unearthed following a complaint filed by one Mitradev Sarma with the Azara police station.
In the official communication, the police requested the NTA to give details about the procedures used in the examination and the possible ways that might have been used by the proxy candidate to appear in the examination on behalf of Neel Nakshyatra Das.
The senior police officials also turned down the allegation about the possible linkage of a group from outside the State in the entire scam. The NTA has also unofficially claimed that the scam took place only in the specific examination centre located at ION Digital Zone in the Azara area of the city and nowhere else in the country.
From the examination centre, the police have already seized several documents. But the centre was allowed to function. On November 4, National Eligibility Test (NET) will be held in the centre.
�As per information we have accessed till date, the scam took place only in the specific centre where the proxy candidate wrote the examination on behalf of Neel Nakshyatra Das,� a senior police official said. Das, who has been arrested in the scam, had secured 99.8 percentile in the JEE (Main).
Although the police have already nabbed seven persons, including the main mastermind and owner of city-based consultancy firm Global Edu Light Bhargav Deka, investigators are still in the dark about the identity of the proxy candidate. The police are optimistic that they would get information about the proxy candidate from Deka who is yet to be interrogated.
During the day, Deka was tested for COVID-19 and then produced before a local court after completing the requisite formalities. The court remanded him in seven-day police custody.
Sources said the police are likely to initiate action against Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) that had been entrusted by the NTA to provide technical and infrastructural support to conduct the JEE (Main). The police are now awaiting response from NTA.
Two TCS employees � Hemendra Nath Sarma and Pranjal Kalita � were arrested by police in connection with the scam.
