Police had last week unearthed the racket of alleged tampering of engineering course answer sheets to increase the scores of students in the varsity and seized 92 answer sheets and eight persons were arrested in this regard.
The scam was effected allegedly by some officials of the MU in connivance with gullible students through agents.
A Bhandup police station official today said the police have identified two more officials of the varsity who are on the run.
The arrested persons included the kingpin Prabhakar Vaze (50), a havaldar (guard) in the university who keeps vigil of the storeroom where the exam papers are stored on its Kalina campus, besides three clerks and four peons.
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According to police, the accused allegedly used to sneak the answer sheets out of the storeroom and hand them over to the students through agents.
The answer sheets were put back in the storeroom within 48 hours after answers were written on papers by the students at home, before they are scanned for evaluation.
Shendge's questioning led police to Vaze and others.
Police had seized 92 answer sheets of the applied mathematics of the examination that was conducted on May 11 apart from Rs 1.18 lakh from the arrested persons, including Rs 45,000 from Vaze alone.
Most of the seized papers were from exam centres of Kamothe, Khargar, Airoli and Karjat, police said.
The accused were booked under relevant sections of IPC and section 8 (abetment of copying) of the Maharashtra Protection of Malpractices at University and other specified Board examination Act, 1982.