Ongoing CBCID investigations into the NEET impersonation case in Theni district has exposed a larger racket in the state, where undeserving students are using impostors to clear the entrance test and secure a medical seat. Investigators believe that there are at least 6 more students from Tamil Nadu who have been admitted into medical colleges based on the NEET scores of impersonators.
The racket was exposed this week, after the Dean of the Theni Medical College found discrepancies in the NEET and college admission photos of a student named Udit Surya from Chennai. On Thursday Udit and his father Dr Venkatesan, who works at the Government Stanley Medical College and Hospital in Chennai, admitted to the malpractice while being interrogated by the CB CID.
A CB CID official who was part of the investigating team, tells TNM, “From our investigation, we understand that there are two brokers involved in this case. The father says that he met one broker – Rasheed outside his son’s NEET coaching centre in Anna Nagar. Since Udit had already failed the exam twice, his father decided that this was the best route to take.”
The broker allegedly told Dr Venkatesan that a medical seat can be secured if he was ready to cough up Rs.20 lakh. The father would have to pay a lakh before the exam and the rest of the amount once the impersonator passes the entrance test.
“The broker has told Venkatesan that he has managed to get several students medical seats through the All India Pre Medical Test when it was the norm for admissions. And the broker has also said that he has managed to get students into a famous college in Chennai and that some of them are in the second year,” says the CB CID source.
Reports meanwhile suggest that Dr Venkatesan became acquainted with the broker through a colleague who had used an impersonator to write his son’s exam.
“We also suspect that the men writing the exam could be medical students themselves or NEET instructors. We will looking into a databases of present of former students to identify them,” says the investigating official.
Source: The News Minute