Justice Mantha emphasized the need for technical clarity before taking further legal action, emphasized the importance of understanding details such as the number of transfers and any potential data alterations on the server.
KOLKATA: Today (5th July): The Calcutta High Court directed the CBI to intensify its investigation into the alleged tampering of OMR sheets and data transfer from the main server of the 2014 Teacher Eligibility Test. Justice Rajasekhar Mantha issued the directive after reviewing the CBI’s progress report, which he found unsatisfactory.
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The court instructed the agency to seek assistance from expert bodies like IBM, TCS, Wipro, and government IT firms, as well as ethical hackers both domestically and internationally. The West Bengal Board of Primary Education was ordered to cover the costs of this effort.
Justice Mantha emphasized the need for technical clarity before taking further legal action, emphasized the importance of understanding details such as the number of transfers and any potential data alterations on the server.
Justice Mantha advised the CBI counsel,
“It would be prudent to seek assistance from both corporate entities and government companies, if necessary.” He emphasized that the court would refrain from taking legal action until the technical details of the case were thoroughly understood.
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“The court requires a comprehensive answer regarding the number of transfers of OMR data from the initial server and whether the server data has been altered, including the frequency of such alterations,” he stated, underscoring the need for a satisfactory response.
On May 3, Justice Mantha posed several inquiries regarding the case, including whether the CBI should enlist another reputable private organization to attempt the recovery of erased data from the ADF Scanner. This scanner was used to capture mirrored images of the original OMR sheets completed by each candidate.
According to the CBI report, Kaushik Majhi, a partner at S Basu and Company, allegedly destroyed the data stored by this ADF Scanner, which supplied 8,000 OMR sheets to the Board.
The CBI has been given seven weeks to submit a detailed progress report on these matters, which pertain to multiple cases filed by Shantanu Shit against the state regarding primary school recruitments.
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