NEET impersonation scam: One more med student arrested
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:25.02.2020
Another first year student has been arrested and removed from SRM Medical University after the CB-CID found his fingerprints did not match with that of the person who wrote Neet 2019 from a centre in north India.
Police said the Krishnagiri-based student, whose name has been withheld following orders of the Madras high court, wrote the entrance exam from a centre in Tamil Nadu. He had appointed an impersonator to write the same exam in his name from another state. When police detected a fingerprint mismatch, they asked the National Testing Agency (NTA), which conducts the exam, for a clearer copy of his fingerprint. The agency took fingerprints of the student twice in the examination hall. “We wanted to be sure before we accuse the student of impersonation. The copy from the agency came about a fortnight ago. When we were sure of the mismatch, we apprehended him and informed SRM,” said a senior police officer investigating the case. The student was later sent to jail.
“We have removed him from the rolls temporarily. A letter has been sent to the MCI. We are awaiting further information from police,” said a senior administrator of the college.
So far, the CBCID has arrested at least 17 people including students, parents and agents in connection with the impersonation scam in 2019 medical admissions. The modus operandi was similar in almost all cases. Students and their parents paid up to ₹20 lakh to impersonators to write the exam in their name from another centre. They used the impersonator’s score to get admission in government and private medical colleges through the centralised or state counselling.
Weeks after the crime was busted, the state government took fingerprints of all first year students from government, self-financing colleges and deemed universities. The authorities also sent the same to CB-CID to conduct the required forensic tests along with a copy of the fingerprints taken by the NTA. The CB-CID also obtained a list of TN students whose names and details matched with those who wrote the same exam at another centre.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:25.02.2020
Another first year student has been arrested and removed from SRM Medical University after the CB-CID found his fingerprints did not match with that of the person who wrote Neet 2019 from a centre in north India.
Police said the Krishnagiri-based student, whose name has been withheld following orders of the Madras high court, wrote the entrance exam from a centre in Tamil Nadu. He had appointed an impersonator to write the same exam in his name from another state. When police detected a fingerprint mismatch, they asked the National Testing Agency (NTA), which conducts the exam, for a clearer copy of his fingerprint. The agency took fingerprints of the student twice in the examination hall. “We wanted to be sure before we accuse the student of impersonation. The copy from the agency came about a fortnight ago. When we were sure of the mismatch, we apprehended him and informed SRM,” said a senior police officer investigating the case. The student was later sent to jail.
“We have removed him from the rolls temporarily. A letter has been sent to the MCI. We are awaiting further information from police,” said a senior administrator of the college.
So far, the CBCID has arrested at least 17 people including students, parents and agents in connection with the impersonation scam in 2019 medical admissions. The modus operandi was similar in almost all cases. Students and their parents paid up to ₹20 lakh to impersonators to write the exam in their name from another centre. They used the impersonator’s score to get admission in government and private medical colleges through the centralised or state counselling.
Weeks after the crime was busted, the state government took fingerprints of all first year students from government, self-financing colleges and deemed universities. The authorities also sent the same to CB-CID to conduct the required forensic tests along with a copy of the fingerprints taken by the NTA. The CB-CID also obtained a list of TN students whose names and details matched with those who wrote the same exam at another centre.
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