Russian ‘hacker’ who manipulated JEE final yr will get bail

By PTI

NEW DELHI: A particular court docket has granted bail to Russian nationwide Mikhail Shargen, who was arrested by the CBI for allegedly hacking the JEE examination software program which had benefitted over 800 aspirants, officers mentioned Wednesday.

Shargen, 25, who was arrested on October 3, had allegedly tampered with the iLeon software program, the platform on which the JEE (Main)-2021 examination was carried out and in addition helped different accused in hacking the pc methods of suspect candidates through the examination, they mentioned.

The particular CBI court docket took observe of the truth that all different co-accused within the case had been granted bail, together with those that immediately received in contact with the candidates and their dad and mom to acquire cash and paperwork amongst others, the officers mentioned.

The arguments of the CBI that Shargen’s function was not at par with different accused as he was instrumental in hacking the software program was rejected by the court docket.

The particular court docket additionally didn’t discover weight within the CBI’s argument that sure cell chats of the accused and applicant with co-accused have been recovered throughout investigation.

“Merely because the applicant is a foreign national, he cannot be denied the benefit of bail, more particularly when his passport has already been seized by the investigating agency,” the particular court docket lately mentioned whereas permitting the bail utility.

The court docket allowed Shargen to be launched on a private surety of Rs one lakh and with bail situations.

Shargen was arrested on October 3 upon arrival on the Indira Gandhi International Airport from Almaty, Kazakhstan.

In September final yr, the company had booked Affinity Education Pvt Ltd and its three administrators Siddharth Krishna, Vishwambhar Mani Tripathi and Govind Varshney, apart from different touts and associates for alleged manipulation of the examination.

It was alleged that the three administrators, in conspiracy with different associates and touts, had been manipulating the net examination of JEE (Mains) and facilitating aspiring college students to get admission in prime National Institutes of Technology in trade for enormous quantities of cash.

They used to resolve the questions via distant entry from a selected examination centre in Sonepat (Haryana).

“It was also alleged that the accused used to obtain Classes 10 and 12 mark sheets, user IDs, passwords, and post-dated cheques of aspiring students in different parts of the country as security and once admission was done, they used to collect heavy amount ranging from 12-15 lakh (approx) per candidate,” the CBI had mentioned.

NEW DELHI: A particular court docket has granted bail to Russian nationwide Mikhail Shargen, who was arrested by the CBI for allegedly hacking the JEE examination software program which had benefitted over 800 aspirants, officers mentioned Wednesday.

Shargen, 25, who was arrested on October 3, had allegedly tampered with the iLeon software program, the platform on which the JEE (Main)-2021 examination was carried out and in addition helped different accused in hacking the pc methods of suspect candidates through the examination, they mentioned.

The particular CBI court docket took observe of the truth that all different co-accused within the case had been granted bail, together with those that immediately received in contact with the candidates and their dad and mom to acquire cash and paperwork amongst others, the officers mentioned.

The arguments of the CBI that Shargen’s function was not at par with different accused as he was instrumental in hacking the software program was rejected by the court docket.

The particular court docket additionally didn’t discover weight within the CBI’s argument that sure cell chats of the accused and applicant with co-accused have been recovered throughout investigation.

“Merely because the applicant is a foreign national, he cannot be denied the benefit of bail, more particularly when his passport has already been seized by the investigating agency,” the particular court docket lately mentioned whereas permitting the bail utility.

The court docket allowed Shargen to be launched on a private surety of Rs one lakh and with bail situations.

Shargen was arrested on October 3 upon arrival on the Indira Gandhi International Airport from Almaty, Kazakhstan.

In September final yr, the company had booked Affinity Education Pvt Ltd and its three administrators Siddharth Krishna, Vishwambhar Mani Tripathi and Govind Varshney, apart from different touts and associates for alleged manipulation of the examination.

It was alleged that the three administrators, in conspiracy with different associates and touts, had been manipulating the net examination of JEE (Mains) and facilitating aspiring college students to get admission in prime National Institutes of Technology in trade for enormous quantities of cash.

They used to resolve the questions via distant entry from a selected examination centre in Sonepat (Haryana).

“It was also alleged that the accused used to obtain Classes 10 and 12 mark sheets, user IDs, passwords, and post-dated cheques of aspiring students in different parts of the country as security and once admission was done, they used to collect heavy amount ranging from 12-15 lakh (approx) per candidate,” the CBI had mentioned.