NEET impersonation racket busted, 8 held

New Delhi, July 18

The CBI has arrested eight persons, including the suspected mastermind and paper solvers, allegedly impersonating candidates to help them in NEET for undergraduate medical courses, officials said.

11 accused of mass rigging

• The CBI FIR accuses 11 persons of ‘mass rigging’ in the NEET for undergraduate medical courses held on Sunday
• It says the accused arranged question solvers for impersonation

The FIR alleged that several people had entered into a conspiracy to arrange solvers to impersonate candidates in the NEET conducted by the National Testing Agency at several centres in Delhi and Haryana yesterday.

The FIR, accusing 11 persons of “mass rigging” in the examination, alleges that the mastermind, Sushil Ranjan, and others, including some candidates, were involved in arranging question solvers who impersonated candidates. The mastermind and solvers were caught from different examination centres of Delhi and Haryana while impersonating candidates.

Ranjan, a resident of Delhi, was apprehended from outside the Havelock Square exam centre in the city.

The probe agency has alleged that user IDs and passwords of the candidates were collected by the accused, who made necessary modifications for getting the desired examination centres. “They also used the process of mixing and morphing photographs to facilitate the use of proxy candidates for appearing in the examination,” the FIR alleged.

The agency has filed the FIR against Sushil Ranjan, Brij Mohan Singh, Pappu, Uma Shankar Gupta, Nidhi, Krishna Shankar Yogi, Sunny Ranjan, Raghunandan, Jeepu Lal, Hemendra and Bharat Singh.