The government has ordered a CID enquiry into the alleged irregularities in the Post Graduate Medical Entrance exam.
The decision was taken after the one-man committee headed by the APSCHE chairman, L. Venugopal Reddy, submitted its report to the Governor. The report is said to have suggested a probe by the police since the network had several players.
Sources said the CID teams are already on the job and a team is likely to question a senior official in the NTR University of Health Sciences that conducted the exam. Another team is said to have started for Bangalore to question the paper printer and enquire whether they had any role in the allegations being levelled by the aspirants. In all, ten teams have been formed and raids are being conducted at different places in Andhra Pradesh, CID sources said.
Officials under scanner“There is definitely something fishy and at this time we can’t rule out the involvement of NTRUHS officials,” a senior official said. “The antecedents of the students against whom allegations have been levelled can be verified only through police enquiry.”
Around 15,000 students have taken the examination held on March 2 for the 2,240-odd seats. The results, however, stunned several aspirants, who alleged that some candidates with ‘questionable’ academic credentials have secured top ranks. Some candidates, who had failed in some subjects in graduation, secured ranks in top 50.
Suspicions about malpractice arose as seven of the toppers were from Guntur while their performances in PG entrance exams in other States were poor.
