Fri. Mar 29th, 2024
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Uttar Pradesh has experienced very similar to the Vyapam case. The UP police caught two students of Muzzafarnagar Medical College for paying 1 lakh each to a mafia operating out of Meerut. The gang has also been working in Meerut’s Chaudhary Charan Singh University, one of the most reputed universities in UP.

The gang has helped 600such students pass their MBBS examinations in the state. The way this works is interesting, the mafia would supply the students answers written by experienced doctors and those would be what students would go on to write in the exams and not their own. It’s not just the students, up to 6 officials were found linked to the racket. The officials would exchange the answer sheets of the students involved with ones written by professionals. The officials unsurprisingly belonged to the evaluation department of the institutions.

The police are still investigating the matter and it is expected more named would be found as the probe gets further. The two arrested were in the second-year of their MBBS course. 21-year old Ayush Kumar hails from Panipat in Haryana and his father is a doctor at one of the renowned hospitals in Gurgaon. 22-yeard old Swarnjeet Singh is from Sangrur in Punjab. Both of them were put in touch with the gang through a female medical student who is also being investigated but is yet to be arrested. The girl’s father was the one who negotiated the deal with the mafia. This started when they had faced a bad examination on March 15th. But the police recovered their actual answer sheets.

The racket has been functioning since 2014. A Special Task Force led by Brijesh Singh in Meerut has been put on the case to recover more information. The racket isn’t limited to medical courses alone, although medical students were expected to pay more between 1 and 1.5  lakhs, for other courses they charged 30,000 to 40,000 per paper. The police are going to scan papers of the previous years which will definitely lead to a long list of offenders and expectedly many who would be practicing in hospitals currently.

By Sahitya