Police seek valuation of properties of accused in MBBS exam scam

The district police have approached local offices of the Revenue Department, Public Works (B&R) and vehicle registration authorities seeking valuation reports of immovable properties and vehicles owned by key accused in the MBBS examination scam that surfaced at Pt BD Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak, (UHSR) in January.

Confirming the move, DSP Dalip Singh, who is heading the investigation, said it was essential to ascertain the number and value of properties owned by the accused.

Sources revealed that more assets could be attached if found to have been acquired through funds exceeding the accused’s legal sources of income.

Meanwhile, fresh revelations have surfaced during the police interrogation of two university employees — a programmer and a clerk — who were arrested recently. According to sources, one of the main accused used to hand over a mobile phone to the two employees, which was then used to leak question papers from an exam centre set up on the university campus in May 2024.

“The employees, who were deputed at the exam centre, would click photos of the question paper using the same phone and send them to the accused via WhatsApp. This occurred on three occasions in one week in May 2024,” sources disclosed.

Sources maintained that to avoid detection, the exchange of the mobile phone reportedly took place at a vehicle parking lot adjacent to the office of the Medical Superintendent at PGIMS. The accused would provide the phone to the employees in the morning and collect it in the evening—an arrangement allegedly aimed at distancing the employees' personal phones from the act in case of an investigation.

The scandal involved the smuggling of answer sheets from the university for both annual and supplementary exams of MBBS course, with students reattempting answers before re-submitting the sheets to the university clandestinely with the help of employees in an effort to secure passing marks through unfair means. Six employees have been arrested in the case so far.