Exam paper leak racket busted in Mumbai; 10 held

Police today claimed they have unearthed a racket involving leak of the University of Mumbai's third year Bachelor of Management Studies (BMS) exam paper by arresting ten people, including a college staff.
An offence was registered against unidentified persons at the Amloli Police Station after an exam paper of the fifth semester of third year BMS course was leaked yesterday from a college in Andheri in western suburbs, a police official said.
On November 16, a purported image of the paper, 'E Commerce and Digital Marketing', was circulated on messaging app WhatsApp more than an hour before exam, he said.

The paper was found in a students cellphone between 9.45 am and 10 am yesterday, ahead of the exam scheduled at 11.00 am, the official said.
A preliminary inquiry found the paper was leaked prior to the exam and its screenshots were circulated on WhatsApp, he said.
After following a trail of WhatsApp messages, police nabbed one person. His interrogation led them to an Andheri college staffer, who had the responsibility to take print outs of exam papers received online from the university, he said.

The university sends papers to exam centres online through its Digital Exam Paper Delivery System (DEPDS), which was introduced in 2013 in the wake of several paper leak incidents, the official said.

All the colleges receive a password to download the question papers from the university portal at least one-and- a-half hours before the exams start, he said.
The papers are then printed by the colleges and distributed among the students, he added.
Questioning of the duo helped the police to unearth a racket involved in leaking out question papers and selling them to students, the official said.
After getting information from them, police arrested eight other persons who were part of the racket.