Including two MBBS students from government colleges arrested...
A NEET exam paper solver racket was busted by the Delhi Police on Saturday and four men were arrested including two MBBS students from two government medical colleges, and four mobile phones and a mini-SUV.
They were arrested in connection with a case of impersonation, cheating, and forgery case that was registered at the Tilak Marg police station in central Delhi after two candidates appearing for the NEET exams were caught with mismatched biometric data from an exam center at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Mehta Vidyalaya located in Tilak Marg area on May 5, police said.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (New Delhi) Devesh Kumar Mahla said, "The two proxy students, Sumit Mandoliya and Krishan Kesarwani, were caught from the exam center as they were found appearing for the exam in place of the original candidates.
The first information report (FIR) was registered under the Indian Penal Code’s sections 419 (impersonation), 420 (cheating), and 468 (forgery). The case was transferred to the district police’s special staff."
Interrogation of Mandoliya and Kesarwani, both MBBS students, revealed the names of their handlers Prabhat Kumar, 27, and Kishor Lal, 37, who were nabbed from a hotel in Noida on Friday. Kumar and Lal are from Rajasthan and Bihar, respectively.
They work as medical school admissions consultants and would charge between Rs. 20 lakhs and Rs. 25 lakhs from the aspirants to provide them the proxy students in the NEET exams,” added Mahla.
Mandoliya is a second-year MBBS student at a medical college in West Bengal, while Kesarwani is a first-year MBBS student at a medical college in Uttarakhand.
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