Kingpin has cops in tizzy

Cops clueless, Eamcet leak plotter moves court

In a major embarrassment to the CID, a key accused in the Eamcet II (Medical) paper leak for whom the police was searching in Bihar moved a city court seeking anticipatory bail.

The CID learnt of the anticipatory bail application of accused S.B. Singh after more than a week and has filed a petition opposing it.

The CID claimed that its teams were working in different parts of the country to nab the accused. It was when police personnel were making arrangements to travel to Varanasi in search of Singh that they found he had moved the court here.

Singh is suspected to have procured the question paper from a printing press; he allegedly paid an employee `15 lakh for the paper. Singh employed one Kamlesh Kumar Singh, another accused in the case, to leak the paper to around 60 agents across the country.

The agents sold the papers to students and organised camps in Bengaluru, Kolkata and other cities to train them to mark the answers correctly. It is suspected that the gang earned more than `15 crore.

The CID got a breakthrough after questioning Kamlesh Singh’s relatives Alok Kumar Singh, Sanjay Singh and Ramkumar Singh. Kamlesh Singh died of cardiac arrest while in CID custody in January.

After registering a case July 2016, the CID has arrested around 54 suspects from Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh and Bengaluru.