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Racket in evaluation of answer sheets unearthed in Agra

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Agra : Police today unearthed a racket in evaluation of answer sheets of professional courses here and arrested a college professor and four students in this connection.

Police said they raided a house in a lawyers colony in the city following specific information that a racket in evaluation of answer sheets was going on there.

The students who allotted marks were paid as low as Rs two per sheet, they said.

The arrested students belonged to a Technical Management Institute in Agra, police said adding they were caught evaluating answer sheets of professional courses.

Police said the leader of the group, Baijnath alias Ravi, told his interrogators that he used to receive bundles of answer sheets through a Ghaziabad professor.

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