Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Police busted a remote rigging racket during the CSIR-NET examination following a raid at the Subharti University in Meerut district, arresting three Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) employees.
Mobile phones seized from the trio reportedly carried the names and IP addresses of 11 aspirants while two laptops recovered showed Any Desk remote access to the exam centre. While the CSIR-NET exam is conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA), TCS is the technology facilitator for it.
It is suspected that the aspirants shared access to their systems with a “solver” sitting outside the exam centre via Any Desk, a remote desktop software that allows users to access and control devices from anywhere as if they were using the device locally.
The TCS employees arrested are Arun Sharma and Mohammed Usman, while the third person arrested has not been named yet. Police said the devices recovered from them are being scanned to know the identity of others involved in the racket.
The university administration said TCS had conducted a mock test the day before and had formatted all the systems and installed their software after which the lab was locked.
The CSIR-NET exam was held on Friday in two batches. The first batch was from 9 am to 12 noon during which the STF team conducted the raid at the university and seized the server. Sources said the second batch was held between 3 pm to 6 pm using a different server, which the STF had ordered from TCS.
