Missing TET papers case 'happened by accident': CID

The CID today claimed to have cracked the case of missing Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) papers, stating that the incident "happened by accident".
Rubbishing inferences that the personnel present in the bus from which the packet of question papers went missing, were in anyway involved in the incident, IGP-II Vineet Goel said, "There are not much discrepancy in their versions. And we could not establish that they had any criminal motive...."
There were eight persons in the bus - two from the postal department, two constables and a couple of helping hands including the driver and the helper, he said.

"We have made sufficient progress in the case and identified the person and (ascertained) what happened," Goyal told reporters here.
According to Goel, CID had a hard time in spotting the only eye-witness, a traveller on a MUV, Abdul Qasim in the case.
Acting on Qasim's version, CID sleuths picked up the driver of the truck, whose helper was seen by the eye-witness as picking up a packet which fell from the bus window, Goel said.

The driver, Tarun Bhuyan admitted that his helper picked up the packet but on finding that it contained papers they dropped it few hundred metres before getting into the FCI godown on the Hyde Road after driving down the Bombay Road.

"Because nobody can carry anything inside the FCI godown and finding that the packet contained papers they dropped the packet around 500 metres before the godown's entrance," Goel said.
"We have interrogated the driver several times and could not establish any criminal intent of the duo," he said, adding that the helper hailed from Bihar.