GUWAHATI, Oct 29 - Police is yet to connect all the dots in the sensational Joint Entrance Examination (Main) proxy candidate case that surfaced in the city recently. Police said Bhargav Deka, owner of the city-based coaching institute Global Edu Light and one of the prime accused of the scam, is on the run. Efforts are on to nab him. Besides Deka, police is also going to arrest a number of persons in connection with the case.
The police made five arrests yesterday, including the candidate and his father, a practising doctor of a reputed city hospital. The Deputy Commissioner of Police (West) has already formed a special investigating team under the Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (West) Suprative Lal Baruah to probe the scam. DCP Nabaneet Mahanta said that the case is very complicated and the police will soon be making more arrests. �JEE (Main) is conducted through a stringent process. Therefore, without the involvement of a number of people, it is not easy to indulge in such malpractices,� he said.
The scam has also put a big question mark over the national-level examination conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) based upon which a candidate gets seat in engineering and technical institutes of the country.
In order to conduct the examination, NTA engaged Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) as an outsourced agency. People familiar with the examination process said that TCS provides infrastructural support and human resource to NTA in conducting the examination.
The scam also proved the lackadaisical attitude of TCS in managing the examination process, as two of its employees � Hemendra Nath Sarma and Pranjal Kalita � were arrested by police on Wednesday evening.
�If TCS had been careful in appointing honest and accountable people, then no one would dare to do such malpractice,� Mahanta asserted.
Meanwhile, during a conversation with The Assam Tribune, a student who appeared in the JEE (Main), said he had witnessed execution of a very strict procedure in the examination hall. �I am shocked at the news, because there was no scope to adopt any malpractice in that examination. If it really took place, then a number of people might have been involved,� he said.
In another development, the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Kamrup (Metro) today sent all the five arrested persons to five-day police custody.
