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MBBS scam: JK exam board ex-chief sent to 10-day judicial custody
Ishfaq Tantry
Tribune News service

Srinagar, December 7
A special anti-corruption court today remanded former chairman of the state entrance examination panel Mushtaq Ahmad Peer in ten-day judicial custody. Peer is the prime accused in the alleged scam involving the sale of Common Entrance Test (CET)-2012 question papers for selection into medical colleges.

Peer was arrested by the Crime Branch on November 23 and sent to police remand, which ended today. The former Chairman of the Board of Professional Entrance Examinations (BOPEE) was produced before the court by the Crime Branch today for the extension of his remand, which sent him to ten-day judicial custody. Earlier on December 3, his police custody was extended by four days by a city magistrate.

Now Peer’s bail plea will be heard before the same court on Monday. Opposing his bail plea, the Crime Branch, in its report to the court, has said the former BOPEE Chairman sold the CET papers through his close aide Farooq Ahmad Itoo and in turn received around Rs 60 lakh. Itoo has also confessed to giving the money to Peer after receiving CET-2012 papers from him and selling them to eight candidates. The Crime Branch had initiated a probe into the case after it received a written complaint that 12 candidates had qualified CET-2012 after purchasing question papers from brokers.