India’s CBI files charges against 13

India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed charges against 13 people in connection with leaked question papers for the national medical college entrance test, days after youth-led protests over the scandal forced the education minister to quit.

Those charged include three subject experts from the federal National Testing Agency, several middlemen who sourced and distributed the leaked questions, and two people associated with coaching institutes who obtained them, CBI said late on Wednesday, adding that all of them were detained in custody.

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“The Central Bureau of Investigation has filed charge sheet ... against 13 arrested accused for offences of criminal conspiracy, cheating, criminal breach of trust, destruction of evidence and others,” it said.

The 13 people could not be reached for comment as they are in custody.