New Delhi: Police arrested four people, including two MBBS students who were allegedly running a paper solver gang for NEET exams in the national capital, PTI reported.
Police said that the matter came to light after a student’s biometric data got mismatched during the NEET exam at Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan Mehta Vidyalaya here on May 5. Police caught the two proxy students, Sumit Mandoliya and Krishan Kesarwani, from the exam centre, Deputy Commissioner of Police (New Delhi) Devesh Kumar Mahla informed.
According to the DCP, the case was transferred to the Special Staff of New Delhi District, given the seriousness of the offence. A dedicated team led by Inspector Sanjay Kumar Gupta was formed to probe the matter, he added.
During sustained interrogation, Sumit Mandoliya and Krishan Kesarwani, both MBBS students, revealed the names of their handlers -- Prabhat Kumar, 27, and Kishor Lal, 37 -- who were arrested from a hotel in Noida on Friday.
The officer said Kumar and Lal are residents of Rajasthan and Bihar, respectively. The duo, who works as medical school admissions consultants, would charge the amount of ₹ 20 to 25 ₹ lakhs from the aspirants to provide them proxy students for the NEET exams.
The officer said that the gang mixed the photos of the proxy and original students to create another digital photo to paste on the form. This helped them to mislead the examiners, he said.
Mandoliya and Kesarwani, hailing from Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, respectively, are MBBS students from different colleges. Another officer said the former is a second-year MBBS student at a medical college in West Bengal, and the latter is a first-year MBBS student at a medical college in Uttarakhand.
The police have recovered four mobile phones and one Kia Seltos car from the arrestees’ possession.