4 Tamil Nadu medicos & 1 Kerala agent held in Neet scam
TNN | Sep 28, 2019, 04.06 AM IST
TNN | Sep 28, 2019, 04.06 AM IST
CHENNAI: Four more MBBS students in Tamil Nadu, one of them a girl, and an agent from Kerala were picked up by the police on Friday as part of the ongoing investigation into the NEET impersonation scam.
The four students are from colleges in Chennai, Chengalpet and Dharmapuri (TOI has the names) while the agent was identified as George Joseph from Thiruvananthapuram. Police said Joseph had collected Rs 20 lakh from Udit Surya and his father Dr K S Venkatesh, who were arrested on Wednesday, to engage an impersonator to write NEET fpr Suriya in Mumbai. Surya got admission at the Theni Government Medical College, but was exposed as his photo in the college admit card did not match the NEET ID photo.
Police said the four students picked up on Friday and Udit Surya had studied at a private engineering college on the outskirts of Chennai in 2017-18. It was closed after failing to get approval from AICTE. All the four students were questioned at the CB-CID office in Chennai and Coimbatore before they were taken to Theni for further investigations.
A police officer, who was part of the investigation, said, one student had paid Rs. 23 lakh to an agent to get an impersonator to take the NEET examination for him. Two students got impersonators to write the NEET for them in New Delhi and Lucknow.
Police are on the lookout for two other agents, Rafi of Bengaluru and Mohammad Shafi of Vaniyambadi near Vellore. Police are also probing is such impersonation happened in previous years too.
The four students are from colleges in Chennai, Chengalpet and Dharmapuri (TOI has the names) while the agent was identified as George Joseph from Thiruvananthapuram. Police said Joseph had collected Rs 20 lakh from Udit Surya and his father Dr K S Venkatesh, who were arrested on Wednesday, to engage an impersonator to write NEET fpr Suriya in Mumbai. Surya got admission at the Theni Government Medical College, but was exposed as his photo in the college admit card did not match the NEET ID photo.
Police said the four students picked up on Friday and Udit Surya had studied at a private engineering college on the outskirts of Chennai in 2017-18. It was closed after failing to get approval from AICTE. All the four students were questioned at the CB-CID office in Chennai and Coimbatore before they were taken to Theni for further investigations.
A police officer, who was part of the investigation, said, one student had paid Rs. 23 lakh to an agent to get an impersonator to take the NEET examination for him. Two students got impersonators to write the NEET for them in New Delhi and Lucknow.
Police are on the lookout for two other agents, Rafi of Bengaluru and Mohammad Shafi of Vaniyambadi near Vellore. Police are also probing is such impersonation happened in previous years too.
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