‘CAT results were also doctored in 2011-12’

The Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the tampering of the results of 2012-2013 Common Admission Test (CAT), has revealed the manipulations in the previous year and involvement of more persons in the case.

In a report filed before the Ernakulam Chief Judicial Magistrate Court on Monday, the agency said Ahmed Aslam, a key accused in the case, had offered Rs 8 lakh to Muhammad Aafaque for altering scores of eight students while uploading result of the 2011-2012 CAT.

Following the offer, Aafaque, an employee of the career guidance agency, gave login ID and password of IIM website to Aslam, who increased the scores of the students.

For 2012-13 CAT, Aslam approached Aafaque with Rs 50 lakhs and in similar way, they altered the scores of 80 students.

CBI has traced 30 out of the 80 students who had benefited from doctored marks and interrogated them. However, they denied having paid cash for doctoring marks but for securing admissions in business management schools.

According to officials, the accused collected money from the students promising admission to prestigious business schools such as AMT Ghaziabad, MDA Gurgaon, MIB New Delhi and LBS New Delhi etc.

The agency also suspects that some students who had benefited from the doctored marks had managed to secure admission in some of these business schools.

Meanwhile, the Ernakulam Chief Judicial Magistrate on Monday gave CBI eight days’custody of Aslam and Saigam Abbas, who was arrested from North India last week. Through their custodial interrogation CBI aims at finding how much money was collected from students by the accused.

Officials said Aslam was functioning as one of the operators of a Gaziabad-based Career Guidance institute and Abbas had collected money from students.