Impersonator hired by Chennai medical student wrote NEET in Bihar
TNN | Feb 27, 2020, 05.55 AM IST
CHENNAI: A second-year student of Madras Medical College, who was arrested along with his father on Wednesday in connection with the NEET scam, had used an impersonator who took the entrance exam at a centre in Bihar, investigators have found.
The student was expelled from the college last October, but could not be booked till now because of delay in establishing mismatch of fingerprints on the NEET answer sheet and other documents submitted to the college during admission.
Police said K Deivendran, 53, a businessman who hails from Hosur, had paid 20 lakh to a Bengaluru-based broker to arrange an impersonator for his son. The broker is yet to be apprehended.
Deivendran told police that he met the mediator in Bengaluru through a common friend. A police officer said, "Once we arrest the mediator we may be able to get to many impersonators who wrote NEET on behalf of students from Tamil Nadu," said a police officer.
According to a press release, police arrested Deivendran and his son (name withheld) after scrutinizing documents submitted by the student to the Madras Medical College and the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). A magistrate court in the city on Wednesday remanded them in judicial custody.
Police said the student enrolled in MMC in 2018 claiming that he had appeared for NEET at a centre in Gaya, Bihar, though he was born and brought up in Hosur. After the scrutiny found the papers suspicious, the college filed a police complaint which was forwarded to the CB-CID.
In October last year, news about a case of impersonation of a second year medical student in the Madras Medical College came up. College dean Dr R Jayanthi filed a police complaint at the Flower Bazaar police station, which was later transferred to CB-CID. There was so far no other complaint against anyone of the 2018 batch, said director of medical education Dr R Narayana Babu. Earlier he had asked all medical college deans to verify the credentials of first year students in MBBS and PG courses.
TNN | Feb 27, 2020, 05.55 AM IST
CHENNAI: A second-year student of Madras Medical College, who was arrested along with his father on Wednesday in connection with the NEET scam, had used an impersonator who took the entrance exam at a centre in Bihar, investigators have found.
The student was expelled from the college last October, but could not be booked till now because of delay in establishing mismatch of fingerprints on the NEET answer sheet and other documents submitted to the college during admission.
Police said K Deivendran, 53, a businessman who hails from Hosur, had paid 20 lakh to a Bengaluru-based broker to arrange an impersonator for his son. The broker is yet to be apprehended.
Deivendran told police that he met the mediator in Bengaluru through a common friend. A police officer said, "Once we arrest the mediator we may be able to get to many impersonators who wrote NEET on behalf of students from Tamil Nadu," said a police officer.
According to a press release, police arrested Deivendran and his son (name withheld) after scrutinizing documents submitted by the student to the Madras Medical College and the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). A magistrate court in the city on Wednesday remanded them in judicial custody.
Police said the student enrolled in MMC in 2018 claiming that he had appeared for NEET at a centre in Gaya, Bihar, though he was born and brought up in Hosur. After the scrutiny found the papers suspicious, the college filed a police complaint which was forwarded to the CB-CID.
In October last year, news about a case of impersonation of a second year medical student in the Madras Medical College came up. College dean Dr R Jayanthi filed a police complaint at the Flower Bazaar police station, which was later transferred to CB-CID. There was so far no other complaint against anyone of the 2018 batch, said director of medical education Dr R Narayana Babu. Earlier he had asked all medical college deans to verify the credentials of first year students in MBBS and PG courses.
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