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Evaluation racket: Six held sent to jail

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Six persons arrested in Agra in connection with illegally evaluating answer sheets of professional courses of Choudhary Charan Singh University (CCSU), Meerut, have been remanded to judicial custody for 14 days.

They were produced before a local court on Sunday and sent to jail after 9,931 answer sheets were seized during a raid on a house.

The suspected kingpin of the racket RP Singh, who is the son of CCSU Registrar BL Arya, told the police during interrogation that CCSU had allotted the exam papers to Rajanikant Upadhyaya, vice-principal of Krishna Degree College in Agra, for evaluation.

Singh claimed he got the papers from Upadhyaya, the nodal officer for evaluating the papers, who however denied the charge.

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