MMC student in CB-CID net for NEET impersonation

The Dean lodged a complaint after the college administration came to know that one of the medical students in the college got admission through impersonation during the academic year 2018-19.

“The CB-CID has picked up a Dhanush and his father. He joined MMC in the year 2018 after ‘scoring very well’, writing NEET in Hindi that year from an exam centre in Bihar,” a source said.

The medical college administration got a wind of the malpractice after it received an e-mail in November last year claiming that Dhanush, who never studied Hindi in school, had written NEET in Hindi from a centre in Bihar.

That is when the college administration dug deep into his academic and exam results to find that he was a very poor performer. When the college administration checked upon his Hindi knowledge, the student disappear.

Based on a complaint, a city police team had gone up to Hosur looking for him and his father. But the police found the house locked. Now CB-CID has tracked the duo and detained them for questioning.

So far, the CB-CID has arrested more than 15 people including students, parents and agents in connection with the impersonationscam in 2019 medical admissions. Police are still hunting for the impersonators, who had actually written the examinations.

It is alleged that students and their parents paid up to Rs 20 lakh through middlemen to impersonators to write the exams in their names from other centres.

The candidates used the impersonator’s score to get admission in government and private medical colleges.