NTRUHS staff may be involved in PGMET scam

The question paper of Post-Graduate Medical Entrance Test-14 was leaked from the printer’s side and the involvement of employees of NTR University of Health Sciences -which held the test- cannot be ruled out, said the police.

Sources in Crime Investigation Department, probing the PGMET-14 scam said on Friday that it was certain that some employees of the NTRUHS were directly or indirectly involved in the question paper leak. “From preparation of question paper to the task of printing it and distributing the paper to the centres, some lacunae were found. However, without concrete evidence we cannot name anyone,” said a CID top ranking officer.

The Manipal Printing Technologies Limited located at Manipal in Karnataka, which printed the PGMET-14 question paper, delivered the test papers to the university through their representative Sharath on February 25. Interestingly, some brokers, who collected money from medical PG seat aspirants, started calling the candidates to different locations to tutor them about the test paper.

It suggests the accused in the PGMET scam were aware of when and where the test paper was being printed. “Unless somebody from the university tipped them of such crucial details, the scam would not have happened,” an investigator felt. Sleuths grew suspicious of the possible connivance of some university employees since they feel it would not be possible to lay hands on test paper the same day the printer delivered it to the university.

CID officials are also probing the involvement of persons who were instrumental in PG medical seat scams reported a few years ago in Karnataka. “Some key brokers absconding in PGMET-14 scam are based in Karnataka. Our probe revealed that they had committed similar frauds in Karnataka earlier,” a senior police officer seeking anonymity said.

For info-graphics

*CID officials caught the prime accused in PGMET-14 scam

*Police to make power point presentation on the scam before media on Saturday

*Some brokers, students arrested along with the kingpin

*Role of NTRUHS employees being probed

*Connection of persons involved in similar frauds in Karnataka earlier being ascertained