Assam JEE scam: Another accused arrested

Oct. 31: On Friday night, Guwahati Police arrested another suspect in the JEE exam proxy scam. The accused Kakoli Bezbaruah was arrested from Roopnagar in Guwahati. This is the 6th arrest made by the Police in this connection.

Earlier,  five persons Dr. Jyotirmoy Das, Neel Nakhatra Das, Hemendra Nath Sarma, Pranjal Kalita and Hirukamal Pathak were arrested. They were sent for 5 days judicial custody by the the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Court on Thursday. Their bail plea was also rejected by the CJM.

A big scam centering JEE 2020 came to surface in Assam following an FIR by Mitradev Sharma at the Azara police station in Guwahati. The FIR stated that the candidate, who scored 99.8%, allegedly didn’t appear for the test held on September 5, but rather a proxy candidate appeared on his behalf in the exam.