New Delhi, April 18
The Delhi Police Crime Branch
today said it had arrested one Bunny Singh Gautam, a key accused in the CBSE
Pre-Medical Test paper leak case, from the Janak Puri area of West Delhi.
Gautam, an assistant with a pathology laboratory in New Friends Colony for the
past five years, was named in the FIR and is accused of playing the role of a
coordinator in the racket. He had been in touch with racket kingpin Ranjit Verma
for some time.
The police said Gautam was allegedly the one who approached the
parents of the students offering them question papers for amounts ranging
between Rs 7 and 10 lakh.
Gautam had allegedly also placed an advertisement in
newspapers in Ganganagar, Rajasthan, in response to which parents of at least
five students approached the racketeers for the question papers.
Interrogation
of Gautam is on to get information about the whereabouts of Ranjit Verma and his
brother.
