High-tech cheating racket uncovered at AIPGMEE

By Madiha Jawed

Another medical test scam came into light on Sunday morning when 5 men, including a doctor and two MBAs, were arrested, following a hi-tech plan to cheat in an all-India postgraduate medical exam test conducted by AIIMS.

Mohit Choudhary, a second year MBBS student at a private college in Ujjain, M.P was the main accused. The police recovered a 23-page long question paper for an entrance test for doctors from this 23 year old accomplice. The very entrance test was being conducted by AIIMS. However, the exam was not cancelled.

According to the sources, the question paper had been captured on the new-age smartphone and was sent out to the so called "control room" through Bluetooth for answers to be sent back. This is where the police came into the scene.

After being caught, Choudhary, the 23-year-old student escorted a police team along with two of his associates -- Kapil Kumar and Krishan Pratap Singh to an exam centre in Noida sector 28. Both these 27-year old MBA confederates had filed online applications for the test pretending to be doctors and furnished false MBBS registration numbers.

Adding to this, the twosome entered the exam hall with smartphones masked in their jacket sleeves and thirty minutes post the exams, they emailed the images of the test paper to Chaudhary via Bluetooth devices they had darned into their shirts.

Chaudhary, after this was to ferry the printed paper to a house in Noida Sector 53. The group here has engineered a "control room" all equipped with a power back-up, a net connection and books to pass on answers to five candidates.

Ashok Chand, DCP (crime) was said" The candidates were to receive the answers through minute, Bluetooth-enabled earphones". However, Amit Puniya, one of the accomplices was taken into custody from the exam center in Sector 28. Rs 25 lakh-Rs 35 lakh was the amount to be paid by each candidate post their selection.(Read more).