The city police today arrested two more youths in connection with the leak of CAT question papers, taking the total number of arrests in the scam to seven. Officers are yet to establish if the five arrested on Sunday have links with any racket operating at the national level. They are also not sure if the questionnaire recovered from the arrested youth was used for the CAT examination. Deputy Commissioner (Crime) Sunil Phulari said the police are not in a position to say whether the persons arrested in Pune are part of a bigger racket. He said the Pune police have asked their counterparts in Delhi to send details on the identities of those arrested there. The details are still awaited, he said. While announcing the arrests on Sunday evening, Police Commissioner A.N. Roy had said that the police here came to know of the arrests in Delhi only after the arrests in Pune. Roy had also told reporters that the question papers recovered from the arrested youth did not match those circulated at a Pune examination centre. Phulari said the seized papers will be sent to the Indian Institute of Management authorities in Ahmedabad for verification. The DC said that the police are also not certain whether those arrested had any criminal record. Information about them has been sought from Patna, Ranchi and Amravati. The two youths arrested by the Crime Branch today are Nitesh Kumar Singh (22) and his brother Yashbir Singh (26) — sons of a petrol pump owner in Patna. Nitesh, who lives at Parvati in Pune, is studying chemical engineering at Bharati Vidyapeeth. His brother, an electronic engineer from MIT College at Aurangabad in Bihar, arrived in Pune on November 21. Police say both brothers were to appear for the CAT examination and had procured a copy of the question paper. Nitesh, they say, was a friend of Ramanprit Gopaldas, one of those arrested on Sunday. Dressed in a grey T-shirt and blue denim, the 22-year-old was produced before the Judicial Magistrate this evening. He was remanded to four days of police custody.
