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Thursday, Jul 15, 2004

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Fake admission racket busted

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, JULY 14. A 39-year-old man has been arrested by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Delhi police for allegedly duping several persons in the name of providing them admission to medical colleges with the help of contacts.

According to the police, R.C. Meher, a doctor hailing from Rourkela in Orissa, complained to the EOW about a man who had taken Rs. 5 lakhs from him for providing admission for his son, but had since disappeared. A case was registered at Shalimar Bagh police station in this connection and investigations taken up.

It came to light that Dr. Meher was only one of the several victims who had been duped by the accused, identified as Rajesh Rajput.

Rajesh had floated a consultancy company -- Helpline Consultant Private Limited -- and used to pose as its managing director. He had opened offices at various places.

The police came to know that Rajesh used to place advertisements in leading national and local dailies published from various cities like Lucknow, Patna, Kolkata, Chhattisgarh, Chandigarh, Bhuvaneshwar and some places in the North-East. The advertisements used to mention that the wards of the prospective clients would get admissions in various medical colleges.

These seats, he used to claim, were from the management quota and that he knew people in right places for availing of those seats.

Rajesh used to demand around Rs. 5 lakhs from his clients for the purpose. This payment was accepted through demand drafts. The accused used to deposit the amount in accounts opened in different banks like IDBI, HDFC, Bank of Punjab, Punjab National Bank and ABN Amro Bank.

However, Rajesh never met the clients and frequently changed his office and residence to evade his clients and also the police. He had opened offices at places like Jammu, Mumbai, Noida and Lucknow.

The police managed to trace and arrest Rajesh from Noida on July 12. He has been remanded to police custody. The police have recovered several fake admission forms, stamps and bank documents from his possession.

Further investigations in the case are on and efforts are on to trace other associates of the accused.

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