Engg exam scam: Mumbai university gives cops list of 87 students’ names

The Bhandup police have received a list from the University of Mumbai comprising the names of 87 students, whom they suspect were beneficiaries of the engineering answer sheet scam. The police, who have recovered 97 answer sheets so far, are yet to identify the names of the other 10 alleged beneficiaries.

The Bhandup police have received a list from the University of Mumbai (MU) comprising the names of 87 students, whom they suspect were beneficiaries of the engineering answer sheet scam. The police, who have recovered 97 answer sheets so far, are yet to identify the names of the other 10 alleged beneficiaries.

The police have so far arrested eight staffers of Mumbai University. (HT Photo)

According to a source, the police will first approach the students’ parents as they want to record the students’ statements. While these students have been made accused in the case, they are not likely to be arrested.

“We will have to carefully approach this as they are students,” said an officer privy to the investigation.

The police have so far arrested eight staffers of MU. “We have issued a notice to one Deepak Gamre asking him to record his statement as well,” said the officer.

“Preliminary investigations revealed Gamre was involved in taking answer sheets from the arrested accused, Siddheshwar Jadhav, 26, who had access to the storeroom where the answer sheets were kept, and handing it over to the students,” he added.

The Bhandup police also suspect more answer sheets may have been removed from the storeroom and some of them may have been destroyed by the absconding accused. “We are yet to get the report from the university about the total number of missing answer sheets. We need to ascertain the exact number of the missing papers,” said the officer.