LUCKNOW: Ravi Atri, mastermind in the UP police constable paper leak case, had established two sophisticated computer laboratories in Sikkim’s capital city Gangtok to manipulate online exams, police said.
UP STF on April 10 arrested Atri, the brains behind the leak of offline exam papers, including those for the UP police constable exam in 2023, AIIMS in 2012, and the SBI clerical exam.
Sources in the STF said Atri revealed that he was operating two computer labs in Gangtok and had plans to rig other online competitive examinations. He told police that his accomplices include engineers and software experts, the sources said.
“We are yet to obtain information from him about which exam he was planning to rig in the future,” an officer privy to the probe said.
STF sources said one of Atri’s aides, Rajeev Nayan Mishra, who was arrested earlier, used to hack online exams, but independently.
Mishra hacked the system of a private company from Mumbai, which had a contract to conduct the NHM exam in Madhya Pradesh in 2023. STF said a team, in coordination with Sikkim police, will be sent to Gangtok to confiscate Atri’s hardware and bring it to the headquarters in the city for forensic examination.
UP STF is still raiding possible hideouts of 10 aides of Ravi Atri who are at large, including Vikram Pahal, police head constable, Dr Sharad Singh, Subhash Prakash, Atul Vats, Dr Bittu Singh, Sanjeev Singh, Ajit Chauhan, an accused in the Bihar Teacher Recruitment Exam paper leak, and Vishal Chaurasia.
UP STF on April 10 arrested Atri, the brains behind the leak of offline exam papers, including those for the UP police constable exam in 2023, AIIMS in 2012, and the SBI clerical exam.
Sources in the STF said Atri revealed that he was operating two computer labs in Gangtok and had plans to rig other online competitive examinations. He told police that his accomplices include engineers and software experts, the sources said.
“We are yet to obtain information from him about which exam he was planning to rig in the future,” an officer privy to the probe said.
STF sources said one of Atri’s aides, Rajeev Nayan Mishra, who was arrested earlier, used to hack online exams, but independently.
Mishra hacked the system of a private company from Mumbai, which had a contract to conduct the NHM exam in Madhya Pradesh in 2023. STF said a team, in coordination with Sikkim police, will be sent to Gangtok to confiscate Atri’s hardware and bring it to the headquarters in the city for forensic examination.
UP STF is still raiding possible hideouts of 10 aides of Ravi Atri who are at large, including Vikram Pahal, police head constable, Dr Sharad Singh, Subhash Prakash, Atul Vats, Dr Bittu Singh, Sanjeev Singh, Ajit Chauhan, an accused in the Bihar Teacher Recruitment Exam paper leak, and Vishal Chaurasia.
