WARANGAL: Telangana BJP president and MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar was arrested by police within the early hours of Wednesday after he was named the prime accused by town police in a case of malpractice after a query paper of Standard 10 (SSC) board examination surfaced on teams of an on the spot messaging app. Sanjay Kumar, a Lok Sabha MP from Karimnagar constituency, was picked up by a workforce of police from his residence in Karimnagar metropolis and was initially put beneath preventive arrest, triggering protests by his occasion employees.
He was subsequently arrested, after which produced in a neighborhood courtroom within the night in Warangal, which remanded him to judicial custody until April 19 together with three others. The paper of Standard 10 (SSC) board examination in Telangana discovered its means into an on the spot messaging platform for the second day on Tuesday after a 16-year outdated boy took a photograph of the paper from a pupil who appeared for the examination in Hanumakonda district and shared it with that pupil’s brother whereas the examination was happening, police stated.
The paper was then posted in a bunch of the moment messaging app and subsequently shared in different teams by one of many accused, who had additionally despatched a duplicate to Sanjay Kumar, police added. According to Warangal Police Commissioner A V Ranganath, Sanjay Kumar had sought to defame the federal government by conspiring to create worry among the many college students and their dad and mom in the course of the ongoing SSC public examination, because the blame for the query paper leak would fall on the Telangana administration
“There was WhatsApp conversation between Sanjay and the second accused (a former journalist of a TV channel). There were also WhatsApp calls between them. When we asked Sanjay, he said his phone is not with him. If we examine his phone, some more information will come out,” the Police Commissioner informed reporters at a press convention in Warangal.
“We feel that they wanted to create a sense of insecurity among students. There is no political motive in filing cases. This (the leakage of papers) was done under the direction of Bandi Sanjay,” he added. The official additional stated the leaked query paper discovered its means into the telephones of a number of BJP leaders, together with former minister and legislator Etela Rajender.
Ranganath stated the arrest of Sanjay Kumar has been intimated to the Lok Sabha Speaker’s workplace as per process, and added that the police had the facility to arrest an individual beneath part 41 of CrPC with out issuing a discover first beneath sure circumstances. After his preventive arrest, Sanjay Kumar tweeted: ?Fear is actual in BRS.! First they cease me from conducting press meet & now arrest me late in evening. My solely mistake is to Question BRS govt on its wrongdoings. Do not cease questioning BRS even when I’m jailed. Jai Sri Ram! Bharat Mata ki Jai! Jai Telangana.”
He even posted the movies of his preventive arrest together with the tweet. After photos of an SSC Hindi query paper surfaced on the social media platform, police took up the investigation and apprehended the 16-year-old boy and arrested two others on Tuesday, who embrace a former journalist of a TV channel and a lab assistant who had allegedly circulated the query paper on the app. Subsequently, Sanjay Kumar was arrested within the early hours of Wednesday together with one other accused, a driver.
A complete of 10 folks have been named as accused within the case and 5 are absconding.
Police, within the remand report, claimed that the technical proof gained by analysing name particulars of the telephones of all of the accused and the chats of the accused on the app proved past cheap doubt that the accused individuals have been concerned in a conspiracy with regard to the “leaking” and copying of the query papers on April 4.
“This is a pre-planned and criminal conspiracy. Malpractices (have been committed) in SSC public examination with an intention to create rumours and provoke breach of peace of the ongoing public examination in Telangana state wherein Bandi Sanjay Kumar hatched a plan with the help of two other accused to leak out the ongoing SSC papers by taking a photo of a question paper in the cell phone,” police alleged within the remand report.
The police accused Sanjay Kumar of giving route to the second accused to use the state of affairs of the leak of the Telugu query paper which occurred on April 3 (Monday), by stating that if it additionally occurs on April 4, then they may flow into the identical on social media and defame the state authorities.
The BJP state chief sought to painting it because the failure of the federal government in stopping the query paper leak, the police claimed. The growth comes days forward of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s go to to the state to inaugurate varied initiatives.
Sanjay Kumar, who was initially shifted to Bommalaramaram police station beneath Rachakonda Police Commissionerate limits in Hyderabad was subsequently taken by the police to Warangal. Earlier, numerous BJP employees gathered close to Bommalaramaram police station to protest Kumar’s arrest and in addition raised slogans in opposition to Telangana Chief Minister Ok Chandrasekhar Rao. They demanded that Sanjay Kumar be launched instantly.
BJP MLA M Raghunandan Rao and several other occasion leaders and employees have been prevented from going there. Party nationwide common secretary and Telangana in-charge Tarun Chugh stated the BJP state president’s arrest was unconstitutional and unlawful and it might show to be “the last nail in the coffin of Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s repressive regime”.
Four authorities employees have been suspended on Monday in Vikarabad district of Telangana after a stand-by invigilator at a authorities college allegedly took a photograph of the Telugu query paper of SSC board exams and shared it with one other trainer on an on the spot messaging app whereas the check was happening.
