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  New Delhi: The CBI has registered a case against senior CBSE official Antriksh Johri and some other government officials for allegedly hiring a private firm to scan the answer-sheets of 7.94 lakh in this year’s National Eligibility Test (NET), an official said on Friday The agency’s move comes after the private firm failed to complete the scanning of answer-sheets of the UGC-NET exam held on January 22 this year at around 500 centres in 90 cities, the official said, adding the FIR was registered three days ago. Johri, who is Director, IT, at the Central Board of Secondary Education), some unidentified officials of the board and Kapil Soorma, representative of Venus Digital Service situated in West Delhi’s Patel Nagar and Karol Bagh areas, were booked for alleged corruption, criminal conspiracy and criminal misconduct. Sources said that the Central Bureu of Investigation (CBI) has also collected documents from CBSE office but the agency officially didn’t divulge any details a...

  The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed an FIR against Director (IT) of the CBSE Antriksh Johri, the representative of Venus Digital Service and Venus Digital Service, Kapil Soorma, besides some other unidentified officials of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in connection with the National Eligibility Test (NET) scam. The FIR has been made on the allegation that the NET this year seemed to be hanging in the balance, as the private firm which was given the contract to scan the answer sheets had not been able to complete the work, prompting the CBI to file an FIR against it. The CBI has also collected documents from the CBSE office, but the agency officially didn't divulge any details about the searches. The CBSE conducts a number of examinations throughout the year which includes the medical entrance exam, the exam for recruitment to Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti and the UGC-NET. Wherever the examination consists of objective t...