PESHAWAR, Oct 14: A local court on Friday dismissed bail applications of four persons accused of leaking out test papers for admission to medical colleges. The court of judicial magistrate Tufail Muhammad Khan observed that the accused applicants did not deserve to be released on bail.

The applicants included a peon of the Educational Testing and Evaluation Authority (ETEA), Aamir Mushtaq, two buyers of the leaked paper, Muhammad Saad and Amjad Ali, and a teacher of a private college, Noorzada Khan.

About nine persons were arrested in connection with the case.

The entry test for public sector medical colleges in the province was scheduled for Sept 25, but on the eve of the test the provincial government came to know about leakage of the paper.

Some of the accused persons were arrested the same night. The police investigation suggested that a former driver of the ETEA, Mubeen Samad, and Aamir Mushtaq were the ringleaders of the scam.

The police claimed the two men had stolen a paper and had later sold it to a teacher in the Peshawar Model Degree College, Yaseer Majeed, who subsequently sold it to other persons.

The counsel for the applicants said the applicants had been falsely implicated in the case. They argued that none of the accused applicants had confessed their involvement in the case.

The counsel argued that there was not a shred of evidence on record which could connect the applicants with the commission of the offence.