Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Nov 18: In a startling revelation, the Crime Branch of the Jammu and Kashmir Police has found that a separate Centre for Common Entrance Test (CET) – 2012 of Board of Professional Entrance Examination (BOPEE) was established at a local hotel on Boulevard in Srinagar for at least one dozen candidates who had paid hefty amounts of money, sources said.
The Crime Branch today raided the residences of former BOPEE chairman, Mushtaq Ahmad Peer, at Srinagar and Jammu and recovered property documents as he is the main accused in the CET-2012 scam.
Sources said that Peer’s residences were raided after the Crime Branch got various leads about the hefty sum of rupees paid by the candidates for establishing of a separate CET-2012 centre where candidates wrote their examinations.
All those who had paid money and appeared in CET-2012 in special centre are now doing MBBS in various medical colleges of the State. One of the candidates of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district had sold 2 kanals of land for getting a space in the special CET-2012 centre.
Sources said that the Crime Branch suspected that Peer is the main accused in the scam right from the beginning but they were preparing a water tight case against him as he has close links in the power corridors.
Crime Branch during its investigation of the case (registered under FIR 24/2013 in Police Station Crime Branch) identified certain students from Anantnag area whose academic records and performance in the Medical Colleges after their selection were collected.
Majority of these candidates were under achievers in the academic carrier and have not even performed well in the Medical Colleges.
One of the candidates, Mir Hinna Saleem, ranked 36th in the CET failed in 12 class and passed the examination in 3rd grade as a private candidate.
Crime Branch also investigated the cases of Mir Wajid Majid his sister Danish Majid and their cousin Saddam Farooq who are doing MBBS. They also investigated the cases of Hovura Zahoor, Sheikh Bargees Ismail, Amira Shakeel and Ahmad Faraz.
Crime Branch also checked the bank accounts of their bank parents and sale of the immovable property and call details of their cell phones and landline numbers to establish the missing links.
Crime Branch has also held detailed investigations into the role of one Sajjad Ahmad Sofi and Javed Ahmad who are the main agents and roped in the candidates for whom special CET -2012 centre was established. However, the main accused is said to be Farooq Amad Itoo who is relative of Peer.
Sources said that Peer’s residences were raided after Crime Branch established that Peer is the main accused who was heading the BOPEE at the time of the scam.
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