CHANDIGARH: The Haryana police has unearthed a major scam with the arrest of a gang specializing in leaking question papers of All India Pre-Medical and Pre-Dental Test (AIPMT) and taking hefty fees from students whom they helped.
The cops have so far arrested two dental surgeons and an MBBS student of the prestigious Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, all of whom were based in Rohtak.
Gang leader Roop Kumar Dangi, also a resident of Rohtak, is on the run. Investigators say he is most likely a suspended employee of the Haryana government's food and civil supplies department but they are in the process of getting more details. They have also arrested a local small-time businessman.
According to the police, the gang had succeeded in leaking the AIPMT exam paper on Sunday at Rohtak. The members had made deals with nine students and offered to help them for fees ranging between Rs 15 lakh and Rs 20 lakh.
While the accused student has been identified as Ravi Kumar, the doctors are Bhupender Sangwan, who runs a clinic at Rohtak, and Sanjeet Kumar, who cleared his bachelor in dental surgery from a Yamunanagar institute in 2012.
A resident of Greater Noida, Ravi had got admission to the MBBS course in 2007 and has cleared just one year in the past eight years. Police suspect he may have been involved in a few other paper leaks as well and are questioning him to get more details.
The fourth accomplice, Rajesh Kumar, ran a business of money transfer and share-dealing at Rohtak. All four were produced in a Rohtak court on Monday from where they were sent to the police remand for four days.
Suspecting foul play, Rohtak's newly appointed inspector general of police Shrikant Jadhav had set up a team of officials to keep an eye on the exam but the gang succeeded in leaking the question paper. By following their cellphone locations, police tracked down and arrested the four men while they were in a car.
The men revealed during interrogation that they had already sent answer keys for all 90 questions to nine students through Whatsapp just before the exam started. They had also provided electronic equipment which was supposedly to be used to solve the question paper.
As per the deal, the students had to make the payment after the result of the exam on June 5.
The modus operandi
The police have recovered mobile phones, Bluetooth devices, three under-shirts, three bras along with chips from the accused. "A device called 'makhi' (housefly) was put in an ear while installing another in the under-shirt or bra. This equipment works like a cellphone. As per the plan, the gang members would tell students answer keys through their mobile phones from a distant place," said inspector Vijay Kumar, who is part of the investigation team.
The cops have so far arrested two dental surgeons and an MBBS student of the prestigious Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, all of whom were based in Rohtak.
Gang leader Roop Kumar Dangi, also a resident of Rohtak, is on the run. Investigators say he is most likely a suspended employee of the Haryana government's food and civil supplies department but they are in the process of getting more details. They have also arrested a local small-time businessman.
According to the police, the gang had succeeded in leaking the AIPMT exam paper on Sunday at Rohtak. The members had made deals with nine students and offered to help them for fees ranging between Rs 15 lakh and Rs 20 lakh.
While the accused student has been identified as Ravi Kumar, the doctors are Bhupender Sangwan, who runs a clinic at Rohtak, and Sanjeet Kumar, who cleared his bachelor in dental surgery from a Yamunanagar institute in 2012.
A resident of Greater Noida, Ravi had got admission to the MBBS course in 2007 and has cleared just one year in the past eight years. Police suspect he may have been involved in a few other paper leaks as well and are questioning him to get more details.
The fourth accomplice, Rajesh Kumar, ran a business of money transfer and share-dealing at Rohtak. All four were produced in a Rohtak court on Monday from where they were sent to the police remand for four days.
Suspecting foul play, Rohtak's newly appointed inspector general of police Shrikant Jadhav had set up a team of officials to keep an eye on the exam but the gang succeeded in leaking the question paper. By following their cellphone locations, police tracked down and arrested the four men while they were in a car.
The men revealed during interrogation that they had already sent answer keys for all 90 questions to nine students through Whatsapp just before the exam started. They had also provided electronic equipment which was supposedly to be used to solve the question paper.
As per the deal, the students had to make the payment after the result of the exam on June 5.
The modus operandi
The police have recovered mobile phones, Bluetooth devices, three under-shirts, three bras along with chips from the accused. "A device called 'makhi' (housefly) was put in an ear while installing another in the under-shirt or bra. This equipment works like a cellphone. As per the plan, the gang members would tell students answer keys through their mobile phones from a distant place," said inspector Vijay Kumar, who is part of the investigation team.
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