Mumbai University exam scam: 100 mark sheets missing, say police

There are a total of 100 mark sheets missing from Mumbai University, as mentioned by the Bhandup police in the chargesheet submitted in the engineering exam scam at the end of July.

Officers have submitted the chargesheet against a total of 18 accused in the case, of whom 10 were arrested. The 10 accused were granted bail in the case after the police filed the chargesheet.

The 10 accused as well as the other eight are beneficiaries in the scam, according to the chargesheet. They include university employees, including peons, who were arrested for making changes in the mark sheets of engineering students to increase their marks. Sources said, “The police has filed a bulky chargesheet, which has the statements of witnesses, panchnamas and some evidence against the accused. The court granted bail to the accused.”

They added: “Of the 100 missing answer sheets, the police could reach 90 percent of the students concerned, who have given their statements and have became witnesses in the case. Plus, some parents picked up the mark sheets of their children, and some of them also gave statements to the police officers.”

The scam was revealed when Bhandup police officers received a tip-off in May about the accused receiving WhatsApp images of hall tickets, taking the answer sheets of the students concerned from the examination centre at the university’s Kalina campus and handing them over to agents, who then took the answer sheets to the students for them to write down the correct answers in the blank spaces that they had left deliberately on the sheets. The answer sheets were then returned to the bunch in the examination centre.

An official said, “A total of 159 mark sheets are missing from the exam centre and we have got information about the whereabouts of only 100 of these, while the rest of the 59 sheets are still missing.”