Tamil Nadu NEET Fraud: Madras HC grants bail to 2 MBBS students; denies relief to parents
Chennai: The Madras High Court has granted bail to two more students who were accused of committing fraud in NEET 2019 examinations to secure MBBS seats in medical colleges. Meanwhile, the bench denied relief to their fathers who were also arrested in connection to the scam.
The court had earlier given bail to the earliest accused medico who took admission to Theni Medical College via a proxy candidate in NEET.
Medical Dialogues had been reporting about this scam wherein the Theni Medical College's medico was booked under IPC Sections 419, 420 and 120 (B) for alleged impersonation in NEET. The matter was forwarded to the Selection Committee of the Directorate of Medical Education (DME) and the cops on the basis of the complaint filed by the Theni Medical College Dean Dr AK Rajendran.
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The investigation into the matter kept on unfolding unexpected twists, wherein a doctor, who was allegedly liaisoned with an agent who facilitated the impersonation; a Keralite agent; three more MBBS students and their parents also fell under the scanner of the CB-CID.
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Apart from the use of proxy candidates, other angles like fudging NEET score were also being looked into in the case.
After questioning of the three, it came to light that a number of other students from Tamil Nadu had also used foul means to gain MBBS admission into medical colleges. During the preliminary inquiry, it was revealed that lakhs of rupees reportedly changed hands to help aspirants join MBBS through illegal means.
Further, the matter reached the Madras High Court where the bench observed that the fraud of NEET impersonation for acquiring MBBS Admission may have not been confined to Tamil Nadu alone, but may have spread all over India.
Read Also: Probe into NEET scam to go Pan India: Madras High Court
Thereafter, the bail pleas of 8 accused in the case including students and their parents were dismissed by the Judicial Magistrate Court.
The NTA had informed the HC that thumb impressions of 4,250 students were sent to the Crime-Branch CID.
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The court had earlier given bail to the earliest accused medico who took admission to Theni Medical College via a proxy candidate in NEET.
Medical Dialogues had been reporting about this scam wherein the Theni Medical College's medico was booked under IPC Sections 419, 420 and 120 (B) for alleged impersonation in NEET. The matter was forwarded to the Selection Committee of the Directorate of Medical Education (DME) and the cops on the basis of the complaint filed by the Theni Medical College Dean Dr AK Rajendran.
Read Also: Tamil Nadu: MBBS medico booked for impersonation applies for anticipatory bail
The investigation into the matter kept on unfolding unexpected twists, wherein a doctor, who was allegedly liaisoned with an agent who facilitated the impersonation; a Keralite agent; three more MBBS students and their parents also fell under the scanner of the CB-CID.
Read Also: NEET Scam: 2 medical colleges Deans to face inquiry; MBBS students, parents allege threat calls by agents
Apart from the use of proxy candidates, other angles like fudging NEET score were also being looked into in the case.
After questioning of the three, it came to light that a number of other students from Tamil Nadu had also used foul means to gain MBBS admission into medical colleges. During the preliminary inquiry, it was revealed that lakhs of rupees reportedly changed hands to help aspirants join MBBS through illegal means.
Further, the matter reached the Madras High Court where the bench observed that the fraud of NEET impersonation for acquiring MBBS Admission may have not been confined to Tamil Nadu alone, but may have spread all over India.
Read Also: Probe into NEET scam to go Pan India: Madras High Court
Thereafter, the bail pleas of 8 accused in the case including students and their parents were dismissed by the Judicial Magistrate Court.
The NTA had informed the HC that thumb impressions of 4,250 students were sent to the Crime-Branch CID.
Read Also: Tamil Nadu NEET Scam: NTA submits thumb impressions of 4,250 MBBS students to CB-CID
Later, the HC impleaded the Director of Income Tax (Investigation), New Delhi, as a party respondent to the proceedings citing huge cash seizures.
Now, during the recent hearing on the case, the court pointed out that the parents, who allegedly pressured children to join medical courses through malpractices are the first accused in the case and not the students. Stating this, the bench granted bail to the 2 MBBS students and denied relief to their fathers, according to TNM.
TOI reports that in one petition, stating that they were in no way connected with the alleged offence and were falsely implicated, the Chennai based father-son duo moved the high court Madurai bench seeking bail. Similarly, another petition was filed wherein the other accused medico along with his father stated that though he was eligible to get a seat in a government medical college, he preferred to join a private institute.
Meanwhile, another father-son duo filed two separate petitions before the high court seeking anticipatory bail. In the petition, the father stated that his son had cleared NEET and the allegation of impersonation in the exam arose due to the mismatch of the photograph in the hall ticket.
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