New Delhi: Four people, including two MBBS students, have been arrested for running a paper solver gang for the NEET exam here, police said on Saturday.
Police said that the matter came to light on May 5 when the biometric data of a student mismatched during the NEET examination at Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan Mehta Vidyalaya located in Tilak Marg area.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (New Delhi) Devesh Kumar Mahala said that two fake students Sumit Mandolia and Krishna Kesarwani were caught from the centre.
Considering the gravity of the crime, the case was transferred to the Special Staff of New Delhi district and a dedicated team led by Inspector Sanjay Kuma Gupta was formed to investigate, the DCP said.
During sustained interrogation, Sumit Mandoliya and Krishna Kesarwani, both MBB students, revealed the names of their handlers - Prabhat Kumar, 27, and Kisho Lal, 37 - who were caught from a Noida hotel on Friday.The officer said that Kumar and Lal are residents of Rajasthan and Bihar respectively. The duo, who work as medical school admission consultants, will charge candidates a sum of Rs 20 to 25 lakh for providing proxy students for the NEET exam.
They will also combine the photos of the proxy and original students to digitally create another photo to paste on the form. This helped them mislead the examiners, the officer said.
Mandoliya and Kesarwani, hailing from Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh respectively, are MBBS students from different colleges, another official said.He told that Mandoliya is a second year MBBS student in a medical college in West Bengal and Kesarwani is a first year MBBS student in a medical college in Uttarakhand.
Police have recovered four mobile phones and a Kia Seltos car from their possession.
Police said the accused were further interrogated to know their involvement in the previous examinations.The matter is under investigation.
Police said that the matter came to light on May 5 when the biometric data of a student mismatched during the NEET examination at Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan Mehta Vidyalaya located in Tilak Marg area.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (New Delhi) Devesh Kumar Mahala said that two fake students Sumit Mandolia and Krishna Kesarwani were caught from the centre.
Considering the gravity of the crime, the case was transferred to the Special Staff of New Delhi district and a dedicated team led by Inspector Sanjay Kuma Gupta was formed to investigate, the DCP said.
During sustained interrogation, Sumit Mandoliya and Krishna Kesarwani, both MBB students, revealed the names of their handlers - Prabhat Kumar, 27, and Kisho Lal, 37 - who were caught from a Noida hotel on Friday.The officer said that Kumar and Lal are residents of Rajasthan and Bihar respectively. The duo, who work as medical school admission consultants, will charge candidates a sum of Rs 20 to 25 lakh for providing proxy students for the NEET exam.
They will also combine the photos of the proxy and original students to digitally create another photo to paste on the form. This helped them mislead the examiners, the officer said.
Mandoliya and Kesarwani, hailing from Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh respectively, are MBBS students from different colleges, another official said.He told that Mandoliya is a second year MBBS student in a medical college in West Bengal and Kesarwani is a first year MBBS student in a medical college in Uttarakhand.
Police have recovered four mobile phones and a Kia Seltos car from their possession.
Police said the accused were further interrogated to know their involvement in the previous examinations.The matter is under investigation.