TYBCom paper leak: Cops seize hard disks, mobiles

—S Ahmed Ali 

Mumbai: The city crime branch, probing the TYBCom paper leak, on Wednesday seized two hard computer disks of KM Agarwal College in Kalyan. Sources said the crime branch unit 8 officers visited the college and recovered the CCTV footage as well the two hard disks through which the accused IT coordinator Rajkumar Mishra had issued prints of exam papers that he handed over to his associate Rajendra Borade. 
    Police have also seized cellphones of the 15 students who had received photocopies of the human resources and marketing paper over whatsapp. “Their phones will be sent to the forensic laboratory for examination to find out the source of the paper leak,” said an officer. 
    “Most of the students said that as they had received the exam paper’s photocopy on their mobile through whatsapp and they just forwarded it as they thought it will help other students. We are trying to ascertain if any of them made any monetary gains,” said an officer. 
    Both Mishra and Borade were sacked for their alleged involvement in the scam. On Monday, the crime branch had arrested Mishra, Borade and two students—Vishal More (21) of KM Agarwal College and Pratik Mehta (21) of Birla College, Kalyan. The accused have been remanded in police custody tillApril 11. 2 key links traced in SSC algebra leak T he crime branch, probing the SSC Algebra paper leak, has traced the two persons who had helped the constable’s son to solve a few sums. Sources said one is a girl and the other a boy (both in their 20s). Cops are likely to send their handwriting samples to experts to match with the chit found from the constable’s son last month. “We will make them witnesses in the case,” said JCP Sadanand Date. Last week, the police had arrested constable Uday Kadam and school principal Mangesh Lad in the case. TNN