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1. Main accused in medical exam scam lied to mislead us: Police

The Key accused in the All India PG Medical Entrance Examination scam, Mohit Choudhury has reportedly told police that he lied about pursuing MBBS from a medical college in Ujjain in an attempt to mislead the investigation. According to police, he was pursuing his course from a college in Indore.

“Choudhury initially told us that he was pursuing his MBBS course from a medical college in Ujjain. However, it turned out that he was lying all this while, as he was a second-year student from a medical college in Indore. He was trying to mislead the investigation,” said the officer adding that a team will be sent to the college in Indore to verify his claims. 

Moreover, investigating officers from the Crime Branch also confirmed that the other five candidates involved in the scam, and who had got away with appearing in the exam, have been identified. “The AIIMS authorities have told us that the candidates hailed from reputed institutions. We have identified them and will nab them soon,” said a senior police officer investigating the case.
The candidates, police said, appeared for the exam in different Delhi and Noida centres and not everybody was from the Noida’s Sector-28 centre, from where Kapil Kumar and Krishan Pratap Singh, Choudhury’s associates, and Dr Amit Punia were arrested.

2. Poor performance in course made medico take to crime.

It was the perfect business opportunity for the second year MBBS student. Not performing well in his course led him to think of an alternative way even if it was wrong and illegal to earn money.



The idea struck 23-year-old Mohit Choudhury, about three months ago following which he roped in two of his friends, Kapil Kumar, an MBA from Jamia Millia Islamia and Krishan Pratap Singh, an MBA from IIMT-Meerut.
“Mohit knew that medicos today could go to any extent to clear the post graduate medical entrance examination,” said a senior police officer.
“The three roped in Bhishma Singh, a computer programmer in the area,” said the officer.
According to DCP (Crime) Ashok Chand, Choudhury approached the six candidates and struck a deal wherein the racketeers would keep the candidates’ certificates till they made the payment of about Rs 40 lakh.
Choudhury, police said, had arranged for the Bluetooth-enabled handsfree set, the skin-coloured earphones and shirts belonging to a high-end brand.
Meanwhile, Choudhury arranged for Sony Xperia mobile phones and Nokia Lumia mobile phones into which Bhishma Singh, the computer programmer, fed a sophisticated software which would automatically click the picture of the question paper and transfer them via email, after which the image would be downloaded onto his computer.
They stitched the Bluetooth device onto the shirts, attached the earphones and used the mobile phones to click the picture of the question paper. The image was then sent to Bhishma would check whether or not they were legible. The questions would then simultaneously be sent to Choudhury and his associates who would then dictate the answers to the candidates using medical books and the internet.


So finally the truth is high competition, dispropotionate ratio between UG and PGseats and uncertain question paper set by AIIMS force todays medicos to go to any extent to get into PG, giving birth to criminal ideas like this to creep up in minds. 
Whome to blame here, medical students, few money minded criminals, or the system of education?
I feel that if govt develop more options for medical students like increase in PG seats, better job conditions for MBBS students, alternative PG courses for medical graduates, such rackets can be controlled.