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The Cuttack cyber police busted a major racket involved in selling exam question papers through online platforms and arrested as many as five persons in connection with it. Sources reported that among those arrested were four YouTubers and a government school teacher.
The group had been allegedly selling exam question papers from Class 8 to 10 through YouTube.
The arrested YouTubers were identified as Jyotiranjan Barik from Dhamnagar and Sushant Kumar Bishi of Bhadrak, Sahil Kumar Mishra from Atabira in Bargarh district, and Saishankar Patra from Hinjili in Ganjam. Additionally, the government school teacher was identified as Ghanshyam Beura from Rairangpur in the Mayurbhanj district.
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How the Racket Was Busted
The accused were leaking school-level exam papers for Classes 8 to 10.
The matter came to light when Ranjan Kumar Dash, secretary of the Odisha Secondary School Teachers' Association (OSTA) found out that question papers from October 28 to November 4, 2024, had been leaked during school exams. Taking serious note of it, he then lodged a complaint at the Cuttack Cyber Police Station in November last year.
Notably, the same issue occurred in 2023 as well with pre-board exam papers going viral on YouTube.
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Investigation and Evidence
Police sought technical information from Google and other platforms, which helped them connect the dots and discover that a large-scale racket was behind the leak. Further, the accused group of men had earned lakhs of rupees by selling leaked question papers.
Following their arrest, police seized six mobile phones and one tablet from them and are carrying out an additional probe. However, the authorities have not offered any additional comments on the matter so far.
