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Monday, Jun 14, 2004

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Eight students held for impersonation

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, JUNE 13. Seven engineering students and a Hansraj College pass-out were arrested from a public school at Keshav Puram in North-West Delhi today on charges of appearing for the combined engineering entrance examination held by Indraprastha University in place of genuine candidates. Some more arrests in the case are likely.

Around 6 p.m., the police received a call from Suresh Tyagi, the principal of one Tyagi Public School, alleging that the invigilators deployed during the combined engineering entrance examination held by the Indraprastha University in his school had caught eight young men while impersonating for genuine candidates.

The invigilators zeroed in on the accused after they found that their examination identity cards had been tampered. Further questioning revealed that they had in fact pasted their own photographs in the identity cards in place of those of the genuine candidates. After confirmation that they were bogus candidates, the school principal informed the police. During interrogation, the accused identified themselves as Rahul Misra, Brajesh Misra, Veer Bahadur Yadav, Umarendra Pratap Singh and Yuvraj Srivastava, all first year B. Tech students of Priyadarshni College of Computers located at Greater Noida; Ashish and Ashutosh, students of Guru Govind Singh College of Engineering that is affiliated to Indraprastha University; and Ritesh, a science graduate from Hansraj College.

They disclosed that they had demanded around Rs. 10,000 from the genuine candidates for appearing in the entrance examination in their place. The Keshav Puram police have registered a case and arrested the accused. According to the Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (North-West Delhi), Manish Agarwal, some more people might be arrested in the case. "We are also investigating into the suspected complicity of genuine candidates," he said. Mr. Agarwal said evidence collected so far have revealed that all the accused were operating independently.

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