4 more Rohtak varsity employees on police radar in MBBS Scam
Following the arrest of three employees of Pt BD Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak (UHSR), four more university employees have now come under police radar in connection with the MBBS exam scam.
A hostel supervisor, an assistant, a programmer, and a bearer have allegedly played roles in the scam involving the smuggling and tampering of answer sheets during the university’s annual and supplementary examinations. These were rewritten by students, and then re-submitted to the secrecy branch of the university to fraudulently secure marks.
As per official documents accessed by The Tribune, the police are yet to formally include the four individuals in the investigation. However, the university administration has already granted permission to question them under Section 17A of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
“A key accused, during police interrogation, revealed that a relative of the hostel supervisor is enrolled at the same private medical college whose 24 students were booked in February in connection with the scam. The supervisor was among those who contacted the accused to help certain students from the 2020 and 2021 batches pass their 2023 exams in exchange for money,” said the sources.
Sources added that the assistant, as per the accused’s statement, provided blank answer sheets to the racketeers while on duty at an exam centre on the university campus in 2024. These blank sheets were filled out by proxy candidates outside the campus and later swapped with the originals in the secrecy branch, enabling students to fraudulently obtain passing marks.
Similarly, the programmer, who had been assigned as an invigilator at another exam centre, allegedly leaked the question papers by clicking photos and sharing them with a racketeer, who then forwarded the questions to proxy candidates, who solved them using the blank answer sheets.
Further, the bearer posted in the PGIMS’s operation theatre is facing allegations of aiding the racketeers by providing a sewing machine used to stitch the first page of original answer sheets to the forged ones. “This made it difficult to detect the tampering, helping students secure passing marks undetected,” the sources added.
DSP Dalip Singh, who is probing the case, confirmed that the four employees would soon be issued notices to join the investigation. “Permission for that has already been taken from the university authorities," he added.
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