MBBS scam: Two more cases of impersonation detected in TN
Pushpa.Narayan@timesgroup.com
Chennai:26.09.2019
The MBBS impersonation scam is getting murkier with PSG Medical College, Coimbatore, reporting two more suspects. A week after K V Udit Surya, a firstyear student of Government Theni Medical College, was booked for allegedly using an impersonator to take NEET in his name, the Coimbatore college authorities found that photographs of two students — a male and a female — to be different in the NEET score card issued by the National Testing Agency and the admission (admit) card issued by the DME’s selection panel.
Udit Surya, parents held in Tirupati
A special police team on Wednesday picked up Udit Surya, his father Dr K S Venkatesh and mother Kayal Vizhi from a hotel in Tirupati and brought them to the CB-CID office in Egmore. “We have not arrested them. We will question and take statements from them before deciding on arrest,” a senior CB-CID official said. P 6
'Selection panel has to confirm impersonation'
The students, who passed out of CBSE schools in Dharmapuri and Kancheepuram, were issued eligibility certificates by the Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University before they appeared for medical counselling. The directorate of medical education (DME) and the state medical university had asked all colleges in TN to verify photos of first-year medical students against their Class XII mark sheets, NEET score cards and admit cards after Udit Suriya’s case.
“Ever since NEET came into force, admission to all self-financing colleges is done by the selection committee. We admit students who bring the admission card from the committee. On verification, we found photos were different. The committee has to confirm if there was impersonation,” said PSG medical college dean Dr S Ramalingam. “Police complaints will have to be filed by the committee because they selected the candidate.”
Letters from DME Dr R Narayanababu and medical university vice-chancellor Dr Sudha Seshayyan asked deans to form a committee comprising the college viceprincipal, first year faculty members and administration staff to do verification of documents and physical verification of the students. Selection committee officials said seats including those reserved for NRI students were returned to the respective colleges. “Admissions were done locally by colleges. We verified all documents and screened them for accuracy of nativity and community details. We don’t know how we missed crossverifying the photographs,” said selection committee secretary Dr G Selvarajan.
Pushpa.Narayan@timesgroup.com
Chennai:26.09.2019
The MBBS impersonation scam is getting murkier with PSG Medical College, Coimbatore, reporting two more suspects. A week after K V Udit Surya, a firstyear student of Government Theni Medical College, was booked for allegedly using an impersonator to take NEET in his name, the Coimbatore college authorities found that photographs of two students — a male and a female — to be different in the NEET score card issued by the National Testing Agency and the admission (admit) card issued by the DME’s selection panel.
Udit Surya, parents held in Tirupati
A special police team on Wednesday picked up Udit Surya, his father Dr K S Venkatesh and mother Kayal Vizhi from a hotel in Tirupati and brought them to the CB-CID office in Egmore. “We have not arrested them. We will question and take statements from them before deciding on arrest,” a senior CB-CID official said. P 6
'Selection panel has to confirm impersonation'
The students, who passed out of CBSE schools in Dharmapuri and Kancheepuram, were issued eligibility certificates by the Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University before they appeared for medical counselling. The directorate of medical education (DME) and the state medical university had asked all colleges in TN to verify photos of first-year medical students against their Class XII mark sheets, NEET score cards and admit cards after Udit Suriya’s case.
“Ever since NEET came into force, admission to all self-financing colleges is done by the selection committee. We admit students who bring the admission card from the committee. On verification, we found photos were different. The committee has to confirm if there was impersonation,” said PSG medical college dean Dr S Ramalingam. “Police complaints will have to be filed by the committee because they selected the candidate.”
Letters from DME Dr R Narayanababu and medical university vice-chancellor Dr Sudha Seshayyan asked deans to form a committee comprising the college viceprincipal, first year faculty members and administration staff to do verification of documents and physical verification of the students. Selection committee officials said seats including those reserved for NRI students were returned to the respective colleges. “Admissions were done locally by colleges. We verified all documents and screened them for accuracy of nativity and community details. We don’t know how we missed crossverifying the photographs,” said selection committee secretary Dr G Selvarajan.
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