TRB exam scam: Main accused surrenders

Sources said that he surrendered on Satuarday night and was immediately remanded in judicial custody and sent to Puzhal prison. Cybercrime sleuths of Central Crime Branch, which has been investigating the case, are expected to take him into their custody for interrogation. Police had earlier said that Naser worked as a programmer at the Chennai office of Noida-based company.

CCB had arrested a call taxi driver, Ganesh (28) of Anna Nagar 10 days ago in connection with the case for allegedly collecting Rs 16 lakh from a candidate on the promise of getting him the lecturer job and were searching for Nasar, who is suspected to have manipulated the results on the Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) sheets, while releasing the shortlisted candidates list for certificate verification. The CCB sleuths said that there was a bigger network behind the scam with many people from TRB and a Delhi-based firm having been involved. 

Soon after doubts were raised about the exam results, which were released in November, TRB withdrew the results and released all 1.33 lakh answer scripts in public domain. Based on a complaint by Uma, member-secretary in TRB, the CCB took up the case.