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Police makes progress in JEE probe

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KOLKATA: The police recently unearthed a racket involving impersonators, in some cases from other States, to appear on behalf of candidates in the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examinations for admission to medical colleges. Investigations are being carried out by the State’s CID following suspicions that those involved have links in other States like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Karnataka.

The CID has made substantial progress in its investigations and the State administration might also consider involving the CBI, if required, State Home Secretary, Prasad Ranjan Ray, said here on Tuesday.The modus operandi involves offering scholars or those with excellent academic records

is scholars or those with excellent academic records are offered lucrative sums to appear in the examination under the name of the actual candidates, who provide exorbitant amounts of money — anything between Rs. 6 six and Rs. 10 ten lakh — to the racketeers once they get through the examinations.

Photographs in their admit cards are changed to avoid detection. The members of the racket have helped students secure admission in post graduate medical colleges in other States also, it is suspected. So far seven persons have been arrested. in connexion with the racket. Earlier this week a lady running a coaching centre in Durgapur in West Bengal’s Bardhaman district was arrested in connexion connection with the racket. The centre from where she used to allegedly rope in prospective students for the JEE claimed to have a tie-up with the Acharya Institute, Bangalore as well as the Vinayaka Mission Deemed University, Salem, Tamil Nadu, according to the city police.

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