Bengaluru, Sep 29: More than six months after the probe started, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Wednesday submitted a chargesheet relating to the II PU question paper leak case to the magistrate's court.
The chargesheet confirms that all papers of the second PU final exams for 2016 were leaked. At first, it was thought that only the chemistry paper had been leaked. "Around 35 students will appear in the court as witnesses. They had got all the papers," source said.
"The chargesheet has been filed under various sections of Karnataka Control of Organized Crime Act (KCOCA), IPC, Prevention of Corruption Act and Karnataka Education Act," CID sources said. KCOCA has been invoked against nine accused, including Kumaraswamy and Shivakumaraiah, sources said.
"The nine were the main players in stealing and distributing question papers. The other nine played a secondary role by helping the first nine distribute the question papers," sources said. "We shall not act against any students since their role was limited to buying from associates of the prime accused. Further, none of the students were in direct touch with the first nine accused, against whom we have invoked KCOCA," sources said.
Those in police net
The accused are Kumarswamy , Shivakumariah, Eermallappa, Santosh Parshuram Agsimani, Muralidhar, Manjunath N, Thimmegowda, Nagendra, Anil Kumar UR, Narayan, Oblaraju, Anil Kumar B, Ranganath, Rudrappa, Gangabyriah, Sujay Arya, Satheesha and DC Santosh.
On the run
Some of the accused are still on the run. Investigations revealed that the question papers were leaked from the Hangal sub-treasury in Haveri district on the behest of the kingpin of the racket, Shivakumaraiah and his nephew Kumaraswamy through Hangal sub-treasury second division assistant Santosh Parashuram Agasimani.
The police said Agasimani had the strongroom keys where the question papers had been stored. He let Kumaraswamy in.
Kumaraswamy cut open the question paper packets and took out a copy of each of the six subjects. He then took pictures of the question papers on his phone and later inserted them back into the packets.
The three sold papers ranging from Rs. 1 lakh to Rs. 25,000 depending upon the subject.
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