NEW DELHI, Jan 14:
Enforcement Directorate (ED) has registered a money laundering case against former Jammu and Kashmir Chairman of Board of Professional Entrance Examination (BOPEE) Mushtaq Ahmad Peer in connection with an alleged question paper scam in the State.
The central agency took over the case after going through the FIR of the Jammu and Kashmir Police registered in this case earlier.
ED, according to sources, has identified Peer’s assets and bank accounts in Delhi and Kashmir for possible attachment as “proceeds of crime” derived from alleged corruption money of the scam.
Peer may soon be questioned in this case.
The Crime Branch had submitted a charge sheet, in the Common Entrance Test paper leak case, against Peer and 24 others two days ago before the Special Judge (Anti Corruption), Kashmir, M L Manhas at his residence in Jammu.
The 31-page charge sheet, sources said, has been filed against Peer, the main accused in the scam along with his accomplices including Farooq Ahmad Yatoo, alleged broker Sajad Ahmed Bhat, Haroon and Farooq Ahmad Shah who allegedly purchased the papers from Peer and then sold them to students for a hefty fee.
The charge sheet has named 12 students and 9 parents of whom Bhat, Haroon and Shah have already been arrested.
As per the charge sheet, Crime Branch’s Kashmir wing had received a letter from the State Government on July 7 last year along with enclosures wherein it was alleged that reports were received about irregularities committed by BOPEE authorities while conducting the CET examination on June 23-24, 2012, during which question papers were leaked in return for money.
The Crime Branch, which was directed by the Government to probe the matter, conducted a preliminary enquiry into the conduct of Common Entrance Test during 2011, 2012 and 2013.
During preliminary probe it was learnt that Farooq Ahmed Itoo, owner of a computer institute and close associate of then BOPEE Chairman Ahmad, had sold question papers to some candidates of CET-2012.
The challan said the selection list of 2011 and 2012 obtained from BOPEE found that a number candidates from a particular area made it to the top of MBBS merit list in 2012, which was possible only by accessing question papers in advance.
The probe showed BOPEE officers and officials in league with Itoo and others had abused their official position to leak the questions. (PTI)
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