Students used bluetooth, cell cameras to leak AIIMS test
New Delhi, January 10: Five persons, including an MBBS student, were
arrested for their alleged involvement in leaking the question paper of
the All India Post Graduate Medical Entrance Examination, conducted by
the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Sunday.
Police said Mohit Chaudhury, a second-year MBBS student at a medical college in Ujjain, was the mastermind of the racket which involved the use of Bluetooth technology and software. They were feeding six candidates, including a doctor from a medical college in Rohtak.
According to police, the accused would take photos of the question paper and transfer images to an expert at a centre in Greater Noida. Police, however, arrested five persons before the examination got over.
They had used mobile phones, handsfree devices and skin-colour earphones, connected via Bluetooth and stitched inside specially designed shirts.
The examination was meant to fill 50 per cent post-graduate seats in government colleges across the country and was being held at 156 centres.
Chaudhury was the first to be arrested. Kapil Kumar (27), an MBA from Jamia Millia Islamia, Krishan Pratap Singh (27), an MBA from IIMT-Meerut, Dr Amit Punia (23), an MBBS from PGIMS Rohtak, and Bhishma Singh (27), a computer programmer, were arrested later.
Police said the accused planned to charge the candidates between Rs 35 lakh and Rs 40 lakh, after completion of the examination. To ensure payment was made, the accused kept with them original certificates of the candidates.
Chaudhury was arrested after police received a tip-off that he would be coming to meet his associates at Pragati Maidan and would be carrying the question booklet. “The Maruti car was intercepted and 23 pages of the question booklet were recovered from Chaudhury, a resident of Bulandshahr in UP,” said Ashok Chand, DCP (Crime).
“A team was then sent with the booklet to AIIMS to verify if the recovered copy tallied with the original question booklet. The Controller of Examination confirmed that it was a true copy,” Chand said.
Chand said Kumar and Singh were appearing for the entrance tests, posing as doctors and on false MBBS registration numbers. Both had a mobile phone and a Bluetooth device stitched into their shirts.
“They took the photos of the booklet and forwarded the images to Chaudhury,” said Sanjay Bhatia, Additional DCP (Crime).
Police said Mohit Chaudhury, a second-year MBBS student at a medical college in Ujjain, was the mastermind of the racket which involved the use of Bluetooth technology and software. They were feeding six candidates, including a doctor from a medical college in Rohtak.
According to police, the accused would take photos of the question paper and transfer images to an expert at a centre in Greater Noida. Police, however, arrested five persons before the examination got over.
They had used mobile phones, handsfree devices and skin-colour earphones, connected via Bluetooth and stitched inside specially designed shirts.
The examination was meant to fill 50 per cent post-graduate seats in government colleges across the country and was being held at 156 centres.
Chaudhury was the first to be arrested. Kapil Kumar (27), an MBA from Jamia Millia Islamia, Krishan Pratap Singh (27), an MBA from IIMT-Meerut, Dr Amit Punia (23), an MBBS from PGIMS Rohtak, and Bhishma Singh (27), a computer programmer, were arrested later.
Police said the accused planned to charge the candidates between Rs 35 lakh and Rs 40 lakh, after completion of the examination. To ensure payment was made, the accused kept with them original certificates of the candidates.
Chaudhury was arrested after police received a tip-off that he would be coming to meet his associates at Pragati Maidan and would be carrying the question booklet. “The Maruti car was intercepted and 23 pages of the question booklet were recovered from Chaudhury, a resident of Bulandshahr in UP,” said Ashok Chand, DCP (Crime).
“A team was then sent with the booklet to AIIMS to verify if the recovered copy tallied with the original question booklet. The Controller of Examination confirmed that it was a true copy,” Chand said.
Chand said Kumar and Singh were appearing for the entrance tests, posing as doctors and on false MBBS registration numbers. Both had a mobile phone and a Bluetooth device stitched into their shirts.
“They took the photos of the booklet and forwarded the images to Chaudhury,” said Sanjay Bhatia, Additional DCP (Crime).
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