The Bengaluru police have issued notices to town’s three respected engineering schools that had been allegedly concerned in a seat-blocking rip-off.
A police officer stated the notices had been issued to BMS Engineering Faculty, Akash Institute of Engineering and New Horizon Engineering Faculty, which had allegedly blocked authorities seats to transform them into management-quota seats to be bought for Rs 30 lakh or extra. The universities had been allegedly helped by brokers within the rip-off.
A grievance lodged by the Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA) on November 13 alleged that 52 candidates’ login credentials had been illegally accessed to dam government-quota seats in establishments such because the three engineering schools.
The Authorities discovered that 2,625 college students had not claimed seats that they had chosen, regardless of having attended the all three rounds of counselling.
In response to Larger Schooling Minister M C Sudhakar, authorities seats that remained vacant embody 92 at BMS Faculty of Engineering, 82 at Akash Institute of Expertise, 52 at New Horizon Faculty of Engineering, 45 at Vivekananda Institute of Expertise, 34 at Dayanand Sagar Faculty of Engineering, 32 at Sir M Visvesvaraya Institute of Expertise, and 31 at MVJ Faculty of Engineering.
The police have arrested B S Avinash, 36, who was an outsourced worker on the KEA; Tilak R G, 60; Noushad Alam, 42; Dilshad Alam, 33; Prakash S R, 42; Ravishankar, 56; Puneeth S L, 27; Shashikumar S Ok, 34; Sriharsh T M, 42; and Purushottam, 24 within the case. Sriharsh, Tilak and Naushad are in four-day police custody.
Avinash is alleged to be the kingpin of the rip-off and believed to have shared the scholars’ information with brokers. The accused are stated to have perpetrated the seat-blocking rip-off for eight years.
