Five youths, including a doctor and an MBBS student, have been arrested for their involvement in leaking the post graduate medical entrance test papers, police saidhere on Monday.
Mohit Choudhary, 23, Kapil Kumar, 27, Krishan Pratap Singh, 27, Bhishma Singh,27, and Dr Amit Punia, 23, were arrested when they were using high-end mobile phones with specific software to leak the paper of the All India Post Graduate Medical Entrance Examination (AIPGMEE) held on Sunday.
The examination, conducted by the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS), is held for filling 50 per cent post graduate seats in government medical colleges across the country. About 70,000 candidates took the exam at 156 centres in 15 states.
“The accused were arrested after specific information was received on Sunday that a person in possession of a question booklet of the examination would come in a Maruti Alto car to meet some of his associates at Pragati Maidan,” said Ashok Chand, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime).
Acting on this information, a trap was laid and the car was intercepted and Mohit, of Bulandsahar in Uttar Pradesh, was arrested. The police also recovered 23 pages of a question booklet from him.
The controller of the examination has confirmed that the question booklet recovered was a true copy provided to candidates.
It was later found that Mohit, a second year student of a medical college at Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh, was the mastermind of the racket. The other four accused were arrested on his instance.
Chand also said that each candidate involved in the scam was to pay Rs 25 to 35 lakhs to the racketeers.
“The money was to be paid to the racketeers after the aspirants were selected. In order to ensure that they received the payment, the gang had taken the original certificates of the candidates,” he added.
A case has been registered against the accused.