CBI Books Institute, Director, Employees For Irregularities In JEE Mains Exam

NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), on Thursday, conducted raids at 20 locations in the country in connection with a case of alleged irregularities by a private institution in the Joint Entrance Examination (Mains) 2021.

As per a news agency's report, Affinity Education Private Limited and its directors has been booked by the investigating agency regarding the matter. The places where the raids were conducted include Delhi-NCR, Pune and Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. A case has been registered on September 1 against the private company, its directors, three employees and a few others.

The JEE (Mains)'s fourth session ended on September 2. Earlier, the examination was scheduled to be held from July 27 to August 2, but it was later postponed to August 26 to September 2 to provide the candidates a gap of four weeks between the examination's two sessions.

As per available information, Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan had on July 15 said the National Testing Agency (NTA) was advised to give a gap of four weeks between the third and fourth session of the JEE (Main) examination. The decision of giving the gap was taken considering the demand from students for the same. Accordingly, the JEE (Mains) 2021 has been scheduled on August 26, 27 and 31 and on September 1 and 2, the education minister had said in July.

The NTA had on August 6 declared the results of the JEE (Mains), Session-3 examinations which were conducted on July 20, 22, 25 and 27. Altogether, 7.09 lakh candidates did the registration for Paper-I (B.E. / B.Tech). The examination was held at 915 centres in 334 cities including Colombo, Kathmandu, Kuala Lumpur, Doha, Muscat, Sharjah, Kuwait and Dubai among others. Examinations of 1899 students in many flood-hit districts of Maharashtra including Kolhapur, Palghar, Ratnagiri, Raigadh, Sangli, and Satara, who failed to appear in July, was conducted on August 3 and 4.

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