prayagraj popular messaging applications and wireless technology enabled devices are coming in handy for racketeers involved in mass cheating in prayagraj and adjoining districtsinvestigations into the cheating racket busted on sunday by the special task force stf have revealed that the college staff sent the mathematics question paper intermediate to a solver soon after the seal of question paper packet was brokena managercumprincipal of a up board examination centre and his son were among three persons arrested on sunday for running a cheating racket in transyamuna area of prayagraj districtthe accused were identified as principal indrabhan singh his son ashish singh and a solver vikas yadav all from mejathe stf is also looking for a former staff member of the college who was a key link in sending of question paper to solveraccording to stf officials five screenshots of the question paper were sent to the solver through whatsapp the solver was provided both a and b sets of answer sheets in advance which had the code numbers of the collegetalking to toi additional sp stf neeraj kumar pandey said the college staff was in constant touch with the solver outside the centre he was immediately provided the question paper once the seal was broken for distributionstf had received a tip off about a gang of three running a copying racket in transyamuna area an stf team was active around the college which nabbed the solver while he was writing copies near a brick kiln said pandeythe college principalcumcentre manager had provided answer sheets in advance for writing answers and computer teacher son of college principal was collecting the answer sheets he addedthe accused charged candidates around rs 3500040000 to provide copies of solved question papers of all subjects and a solver was paid around rs 30005000 for writing a copywhen cops nabbed the college principal he initially denied charges against him claiming that the copies did not belong to his collegehowever when the police team showed him the college code written on copies he confessed that he had provided a and b sets of copies to solverthe college was under stf radar for last three years we are looking for a former college staffer shailesh who has been sending question papers to solvers he saidinvolvement of an assistant teacher who was performing duty at an examination centre and currently evading arrest has also been established in sending or receiving solved answer sheets in connection with kaushambi answer sheet recovery case pandey said