NEET: NEET solver gang busted; Woman, daughter arrested: Varanasi Police | Varanasi News – Times of India

Varanasi: Varanasi Police claimed to have busted a solver gang during NEET Examination with arrest of a woman and her daughter, who is a student of BDS-II Banaras Hindu University (BHU) on Sunday.
Police said the involvement of a KGMU medico in the gang has also come to the fore, while a man from Patna, known as PK, is its leader. NEET officials have been alerted about the gang having a network in the North-Eastern regions of the country.
Police Commissioner A Satish Ganesh said, “Acting on a tip-off, the Crime Branch police raided a NEET examination center at St. Francis Xavier School in Sona Talab area under Sarnath police station limits in the afternoon session on Sunday, while It was ensured that there was no disturbance during the candidate search. Crime Branch police caught Julie Kumari, who was taking the exam in the name of Heena Biswas.
The police have also arrested Julie’s mother Babita Devi. Patna. However, Vikas Kumar Mahto, a member of the solver gang of Khagaria district, who had accompanied Babita and Julie, managed to escape.
Fake Aadhar card, NEET exam-2021 answer sheet, admit card, photo, two mobile phones and other documents were recovered from them. Sections 419 (cheating by impersonation), 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 467 (forgery), 468 (forgery with intent to defraud), 471 (cheating or dishonestly taking any document as genuine) An FIR was registered under knows or has reason to believe to be a forged document) and against them IPC 34 (Criminal act is committed by criminal persons in furtherance of common intention).
During interrogation, Julie reveals that Mahto, who had become friends during her brother Abhay Kushwaha’s stay in Patna to prepare for competitive exams, came up with an offer to pay Rs 5 lakh to appear in the NEET exam in her place. Was. The other girl to qualify it.
Babita said she fell into the trap and convinced Julie, who had taken admission in BDS at BHU after qualifying NEET two years ago, to appear for the exam. Babita told that she had received 50 thousand rupees in advance.
The CP said that the arrested woman and her daughter have revealed that the solver gang is running a mastermind known as PK of Patna. He also pointed out that PK rarely used the phone and preferred to communicate through courier and travel only by trains. “After PK gets contracts from candidates, his accomplices arrange solvers,” said the CP, adding that more details about the gang are being made.

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