The Hindu : AIIMS paper leak accused brought to the Capital

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Wednesday, Jan 14, 2004

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AIIMS paper leak accused brought to the Capital

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, JAN. 13. Four of the accused in the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences question paper leakage case who were arrested in Lucknow on January 12 by the Central Bureau of Investigation and brought to Delhi on a transit remand were remanded to 10 days' police custody by the designated court today.

The accused, who include the alleged mastermind, K.K. Singh, assistant professor of surgery at King George's Medical University, and son of former KGMU Vice-Chancellor, K.M. Singh, were arrested by a special CBI team which had flown to Lucknow from Delhi yesterday.

The agency said it was able to make headway in the case as it was able to identify the source of the leakage of the question paper, which was stolen from the strong room of Centennial Inter College, Lucknow, which was one of the centres for the AIPGMEE 2002, held on January 6 that year. Incidentally, about 70 of the 360 MBBS students of KGMC, who appeared in the examination that year, had figured in top 100 in the merit list, and most of the successful students were from the Sardar Patel hostel. The CBI said with the arrest of Dr. Singh and the three others -- Sunith Singh, son of former principal of Centennial Inter College of Lucknow, Shyam Singh; B.D. Misra, owner of Fortune Makers Coaching Institute of Lucknow; and K.C. Bhargawa, owner of Bhargawa Coaching Institute - it has been able to make a major breakthrough in the AIIMS post graduate entrance examination paper leak scam of 2002.

Following the arrest, the accused were produced before the CBI court in Lucknow last evening from where the investigating agency got a 24-hour transit remand for producing them in the designated court in Delhi.

The agency, which was handed over the case by the Delhi High Court after the Delhi police had filed a charge-sheet in the competent court, said more arrests were possible as investigations have revealed that some more persons were involved in the leakage of the question papers.