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Gang of exam paper-solvers busted in Mathura

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Mathura: A gang which helped aspirants clear competitive examinations by selling them electronically-equipped vests through which a gang member would supply them the answers has been busted in Mathura, police said on Sunday.

Three members of the gang — Prashant Kumar, Ankit Kumar and Resham Pal — have been arrested.

The gang offered to provide exam aspirants special ‘baniyans’ (vests) fitted with wiring and hooked to a central command system.

One of them supplied the answers, using the phone conference mode.

Superintendent of Police (City) Shailesh Kumar Pandey said gang leader Prashant Kumar collected Rs.3 lakh per aspirant for the “special baniyan” — Rs.20,000 initially for the vest, Rs.80,000 at the time of the exam and Rs.2 lakh after selection.

The gang members had come to Mathura on Saturday to help their ‘clients’ in the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) examination on Sunday.

Among the clients were more than a dozen aspirants from Agra, Kanpur and other neighbouring districts.

The three arrested have been charged with cheating and forgery under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and under the Information Technology Act.

Acting on a tip, police raided a guest house and arrested the three on Saturday evening.

Cash, 30 electronic vests with ear phones, 25 button cells, mobile SIM cards, chips, antennae wired with a microphone, were seized from their possession, police said.

“This was the first time that the gang was going to use this high-end technology, but were nabbed in the nick of time, before the examinations,” said Pandey.

“Earlier, they were involved in impersonation cases which we are investigating. The equipment was cleverly implanted in the vests and so you couldn’t make out from outside what was being sneaked into the examination hall,” he said.

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What monkey fled with a bag containing evidence in it: Read full story

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The court, generally, considers a person who commit a crime and the one who destroys the evidence, as criminals in the eyes of law. But what if an animal destroys the evidence of a crime committed by a human.

In a peculiar incident in Rajasthan, a monkey fled away with the evidence collected by the police in a murder case. The stolen evidence included the murder weapon (a blood-stained knife).

The incident came to light when the police appeared before the court and they had to provide the evidence in the hearing.

The hearing was about the crime which took place in September 2016, in which a person named Shashikant Sharma died at a primary health center under Chandwaji police station. After the body was found, the deceased’s relatives blocked the Jaipur-Delhi highway, demanding an inquiry into the matter.

Following the investigation, the police had arrested Rahul Kandera and Mohanlal Kandera, residents of Chandwaji in relation to the murder. But, when the time came to produce the evidence related to the case, it was found that the police had no evidence with them because a monkey had stolen it from them.

In the court, the police said that the knife, which was the primary evidence, was also taken by the monkey. The cops informed that the evidence of the case was kept in a bag, which was being taken to the court.

The evidence bag contained the knife and 15 other important evidences. However, due to the lack of space in the malkhana, a bag full of evidence was kept under a tree, which led to the incident.

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