Rohtak MBBS scam: Class IV employee 'smuggled' answer sheets for 46 students

A Class IV outsourced employee, accused in the MBBS examination scam that surfaced at Pt BD Sharma University of Health Sciences Rohtak (UHSR), admitted during police interrogation to smuggling out and resubmitting answer sheets for 46 students in exchange for money.

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He also disclosed that he had provided some blank answer sheets to another accused, allowing students to write answers on them, and replacing the original sheets.

The employee was posted in the Secrecy Branch of the university and was terminated from service before being booked in connection with the scam in February. At present, he is lodged in jail.

In his disclosure statement to the police, he revealed that he had struck a deal with a university assistant to smuggle out and resubmit answer sheets for Rs 30,000 per sheet.

“The assistant initially asked me to take out the answer sheets of three MBBS students. I smuggled them out from the Secrecy Branch and resubmitted the solved answer sheets at the same location. Later, he gave me one more case, which I handled in the same manner,” he said.

He further confessed to smuggling out answer sheets in batches— five, then 10, followed by 11, 10, one, and finally five. These sheets were allegedly reattempted before being resubmitted to the Secrecy Branch for evaluation.

The employee further disclosed that he had also provided blank answer sheets to the third accused. The plan involved getting the answers written on the sheets, and then removing the first page of the original answer sheets. The forged sheets were then stitched to the original first pages using a machine.

According to sources, a toilet near the Secrecy Branch in the administrative block of the university was used as a covert meeting point for the transfer of sheets.

A fact-finding committee had also revealed in its inquiry report that 46 blank answer sheets for the exams held in January/February 2024 were found missing in record. Several of these were later identified as having been used in the exams conducted in April/May 2024.

‘The Tribune’ had exposed the scam in January, prompting swift action. An FIR was registered against 41 individuals, including 24 students from a private medical college and 17 UHSR employees. So far, five university employees have been arrested.