600 doctors busted as fake in UP’s Vyapam scam, two arrested
Piyush.Rai@timesgroup.com 21.03.2018
Meerut: In a major breakthrough in what is now being dubbed as ‘Uttar Pradesh’s own Vyapam scam’, two students of Muzaffarnagar Medical College were arrested on Monday night for paying ₹1 lakh each to the cheating mafia that submitted answers written by experts in place of those by the students themselves. Police said more names of students will surface after further interrogation.
Nine others, including six officials of Meerut’s Chaudhary Charan Singh University, one of UP’s top varsities, have been identified as being part of a gang that facilitated large-scale cheating for medical students.
The racket, active since 2014, has helped over 600 nonmeritorious students pass the MBBS examination and become doctors in the state, police said. According to STF, which busted the gang, the two arrested students were introduced to members of the cheating mafia by a secondyear woman medical student who is already under the scanner but is yet to be arrested.
STF sources said that the kingpin in connivance with staff of the university’s answer sheet evaluation department used to replace the students’ exam copies with those meticulously solved by experts. They used to charge ₹1-1.5 lakh from medical students and ₹30,000-40,000 from students of other professional courses at the university.
One of the two students being interrogated, Ayush Kumar, 21, is the son of a doctor at one of Gurgaon’s top multispecialty hospitals.
The other, Swarnjeet Singh, 22, is a resident of Sangroor in Punjab. Both are second-year students at Muzaffarnagar Medical College.
RACKET BUSTED: At the heart of the scam is Kaviraj Singh (on left), himself a graduate from Ambedkar College in Meerut. The STF had on Saturday busted a gang involved in running the massive cheating racket which allegedly helped over 600 non-meritorious students pass the MBBS examination and become doctors in the state
Piyush.Rai@timesgroup.com 21.03.2018
Meerut: In a major breakthrough in what is now being dubbed as ‘Uttar Pradesh’s own Vyapam scam’, two students of Muzaffarnagar Medical College were arrested on Monday night for paying ₹1 lakh each to the cheating mafia that submitted answers written by experts in place of those by the students themselves. Police said more names of students will surface after further interrogation.
Nine others, including six officials of Meerut’s Chaudhary Charan Singh University, one of UP’s top varsities, have been identified as being part of a gang that facilitated large-scale cheating for medical students.
The racket, active since 2014, has helped over 600 nonmeritorious students pass the MBBS examination and become doctors in the state, police said. According to STF, which busted the gang, the two arrested students were introduced to members of the cheating mafia by a secondyear woman medical student who is already under the scanner but is yet to be arrested.
STF sources said that the kingpin in connivance with staff of the university’s answer sheet evaluation department used to replace the students’ exam copies with those meticulously solved by experts. They used to charge ₹1-1.5 lakh from medical students and ₹30,000-40,000 from students of other professional courses at the university.
One of the two students being interrogated, Ayush Kumar, 21, is the son of a doctor at one of Gurgaon’s top multispecialty hospitals.
The other, Swarnjeet Singh, 22, is a resident of Sangroor in Punjab. Both are second-year students at Muzaffarnagar Medical College.
RACKET BUSTED: At the heart of the scam is Kaviraj Singh (on left), himself a graduate from Ambedkar College in Meerut. The STF had on Saturday busted a gang involved in running the massive cheating racket which allegedly helped over 600 non-meritorious students pass the MBBS examination and become doctors in the state
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