Rajkot city police have arrested a doctor from Bihar on charges of appearing for Saurashtra University’s post-graduate medical entrance examination as a dummy candidate.
Dr Mukeshkumar Sinha was arrested on Saturday after he was found to be writing the exam as a dummy candidate, police said.
He was appearing for the test on behalf of a student from C U Shah Medical College (Surendranagar) in Rajkot.
Preliminary investigation by the Gandhigram police in Rajkot disclosed that an agent in Bihar had arranged a dummy candidate — Sinha, an MBBS from Dhanedi village in Bihar — for a medical student Chirag Vadher, a resident of Nadiyad in Gujarat. The dummy candidate was hired for Rs 50,000, police said.
The accused also revealed that one Chirag Vadher was the real candidate, for whom, he had appeared for the exam. Sinha had agreed to write the examination as a dummy, as he was unable to pay the fees of his post graduate medical course, police said.
“Sinha has been arrested. Police is on trail of two other accused including Vadher and an agent identified as Aashish,” said Gandhigram police, adding, “An offence has been registered under various sections of Indian Penal Code for cheating, fraud and criminal conspiracy.”
Total 606 students on Saturday appeared for PG medical entrance test conducted by the SU at campus in Rajkot for three affiliated colleges - Pandit Deena Dayal in Rajkot, M P Shah in Jamnagar and C U Shah in Surendranagar. Police said supervisor Parmeshwar Rajyaguru, a faculty from SU Law Department noticed something unusual in identity card of Sinha, who was appearing as Vadher.
Further investigation by the SU authorities revealed that Sinha was appearing for Vadher. SU Assistant Registrar Dhiren Pandya registered a complaint against the trio with Gandhigram police station.
“Sinha has claimed that he has never met or spoken to Vadher. Everything was arranged by Aashish,” said police.
The police have started investigation to trace down other two accused. “Soon a team is likely to leave for Bihar to arrest Aashish,” police said.
