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Another doctor held for medical exam leak
The Delhi Police have arrested a doctor who was involved in the postgraduate medical entrance examination paper leak in January this year. Police said the doctor, identified as Devangan Devprakash, a native of Raipur, Chattisgarh, was arrested on Sunday.
The Delhi Police have arrested a doctor who was involved in the postgraduate medical entrance examination paper leak in January this year. Police said the doctor, identified as Devangan Devprakash, a native of Raipur, Chattisgarh, was arrested on Sunday.
The racket was busted on January 10, when the AIIMS entrance test conducted to fill up 50% of postgraduate seats in government medical colleges across the country was being held at 156 centres.
The leak worked in three steps. First, two Master's of Business Administration degree holders, posing as candidates, took images of the test using mobile phones and bluetooth devices concealed in their shirts.
They then sent the images to the gang, which used sophisticated software to email images of the question paper to real aspirants who were sitting for the test.
These aspirants were charged between Rs. 25 and Rs. 35 lakh.
"Devprakash was one of the aspirants who had paid the gang to give him the answers. We will interrogate him to know how much money he paid," said a senior police officer, who did not want to be named.
After busting the racket, the crime branch had identified three doctors, as their certificates were from one of the accused, Mohit Choudhary. Police said it was Choudhary who had arranged candidates for the exam.
Raids were conducted in Madhya Pradesh, Pune and Raipur and police issued several notices asking suspects to appear before the crime branch.
"We had arrested five people on that day and two doctors were arrested later. Another two are also likely to be involved in the racket as their certificates were recovered from Choudhary," the officer added.
Police confirmed that the mastermind behind the racket, Ravi Atri, was still absconding and various teams were working to nab him.
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