Bengaluru police book YouTube channel for PU preparatory exam paper

Bengaluru: Bengaluru police have registered a criminal case against a YouTube channel for uploading a question paper modelled after the board paper during the ongoing preparatory examinations for Pre-University Course (PUC) students.

The FIR was registered by the North Cybercrime Police on January 9, following a complaint by Raju N, Joint Director of the Department of PU Education in Bengaluru.

Raju informed the police that the Hindi-language preparatory examination was scheduled for January 9.

It came to his knowledge that around 4 pm the previous day, "a YouTube channel named NiranjanShetty@Niranjan Shetty9581 (https://youtube.com/@niranjanshetty9581?si=nqbHTSEam1VkVLDK) prepared a Hindi examination question paper in the model/format provided by the department and uploaded it to this channel (suspicious link removed) in an attempt to mislead the students”, the FIR noted.

Police have launched an investigation under Section 66(C) of the Information Technology Act.