4 medicos under scanner are ex-students of defunct college
They were among 36 students the MCI wanted discharged from MBBS course
29/09/2019, SERENA JOSEPHINE M.,CHENNAI
Udit Surya K.V., who was arrested by the CB-CID in connection with a case of impersonation in the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET), and three other students who were questioned by the police are former students of the now-defunct Ponnaiyah Ramajayam Institute of Medical Sciences, Manamai Nellur, Kancheepuram. They were among 36 students who joined the MBBS course without qualifying for NEET during 2016-2017 and were later discharged from the college.
Udit Surya, a resident of Chennai, was studying at the Government Theni Medical College when two emails to the dean revealed that he had secured admission through impersonation. Based on a tip-off from him, the CB-CID detained Abirami Madhavan of Sai Satya Medical College, Praveen S. of SRM Medical College and and Raghul Davis of Balaji Medical College.
In a letter in February 2017, the Medical Council of India (MCI) directed the dean of Ponnaiyah Ramajayam Institute of Medical Sciences to issue discharge notices to 36 students who were admitted to the MBBS course without NEET qualification. The list featured the names of Abirami Madhavan, Rahul Davis, Udit Surya K.V. and Praveen S.
Earlier, the college trust, along with these students and a few others, had approached the Madras High Court, seeking permission to allow the 36 students in question to appear for the examination as they had completed an academic year. The college management had admitted them based on their Plus Two marks.
The students were unable to appear for the MBBS examination in November 2017 since their admissions were not approved by MCI. On its part, the Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University declined to register these students as they had not qualified for NEET-UG 2016 and were ineligible to be granted admission to the MBBS course. It directed that all 36 of them should be discharged from the course.
R. Narayana Babu, director of medical education in-charge, said all three students detained by the CB-CID were admitted to deemed universities.
“The seats were not allocated by the Selection Committee. They have secured the admission directly with the deemed universities through the NEET scores,” he said.
Questions raised
A senior authority has raised questions about the way in which the Selection Committee, Directorate of Medical Education, had cleared two students from the PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Coimbatore.
The institute’s dean had reported to the DME and Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University that the photographs in the NEET documents of the two first-year MBBS students did not match their appearance. Though the college had initially planned to lodge a police complaint, it later decided to send the students to the Selection Committee to get a genuineness certificate, official sources said.
“A detailed inquiry should have been held before the students were cleared,” an official said.
They were among 36 students the MCI wanted discharged from MBBS course
29/09/2019, SERENA JOSEPHINE M.,CHENNAI
Udit Surya K.V., who was arrested by the CB-CID in connection with a case of impersonation in the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET), and three other students who were questioned by the police are former students of the now-defunct Ponnaiyah Ramajayam Institute of Medical Sciences, Manamai Nellur, Kancheepuram. They were among 36 students who joined the MBBS course without qualifying for NEET during 2016-2017 and were later discharged from the college.
Udit Surya, a resident of Chennai, was studying at the Government Theni Medical College when two emails to the dean revealed that he had secured admission through impersonation. Based on a tip-off from him, the CB-CID detained Abirami Madhavan of Sai Satya Medical College, Praveen S. of SRM Medical College and and Raghul Davis of Balaji Medical College.
In a letter in February 2017, the Medical Council of India (MCI) directed the dean of Ponnaiyah Ramajayam Institute of Medical Sciences to issue discharge notices to 36 students who were admitted to the MBBS course without NEET qualification. The list featured the names of Abirami Madhavan, Rahul Davis, Udit Surya K.V. and Praveen S.
Earlier, the college trust, along with these students and a few others, had approached the Madras High Court, seeking permission to allow the 36 students in question to appear for the examination as they had completed an academic year. The college management had admitted them based on their Plus Two marks.
The students were unable to appear for the MBBS examination in November 2017 since their admissions were not approved by MCI. On its part, the Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University declined to register these students as they had not qualified for NEET-UG 2016 and were ineligible to be granted admission to the MBBS course. It directed that all 36 of them should be discharged from the course.
R. Narayana Babu, director of medical education in-charge, said all three students detained by the CB-CID were admitted to deemed universities.
“The seats were not allocated by the Selection Committee. They have secured the admission directly with the deemed universities through the NEET scores,” he said.
Questions raised
A senior authority has raised questions about the way in which the Selection Committee, Directorate of Medical Education, had cleared two students from the PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Coimbatore.
The institute’s dean had reported to the DME and Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University that the photographs in the NEET documents of the two first-year MBBS students did not match their appearance. Though the college had initially planned to lodge a police complaint, it later decided to send the students to the Selection Committee to get a genuineness certificate, official sources said.
“A detailed inquiry should have been held before the students were cleared,” an official said.
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