Noida: At least 4 FIRs have now been lodged, with as many as 13 MBBS aspirants coming ahead after being allegedly duped of Rs 15-45 lakh every by a gang on the pretext of offering them medical seats in Government Medical College in UP’s Banda. Police suspect the rip-off bumped into crores.
The victims — most of whom didn’t clear NEET — have alleged that the accused contacted them and fooled them into paying cash for a medical seat within the Banda-based school via the “central pool quota”. Most of the scholars focused have been those that couldn’t qualify the NEET examination final yr or have been showing for the second time.
On the written and telephonic complaints from these victims based mostly out of Uttarakhand, Haryana, Delhi, Noida, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra, police stated that three major accused have been recognized. “Sachin, Adarsh Singh and Pankaj Kumar Khateek are the primary accused within the rip-off,” Sector 58 station officer Anil Kumar advised TOI.
According to one of many FIRs lodged within the fraud, based mostly on a grievance by Surendra (*13*), her daughter who appeared for the NEET examination final yr for the second time, was supplied a seat within the school for Rs 30 lakh. (*13*) was requested to go to the faculty in January, the place the accused took the cash for his daughter’s seat. However, later, he was requested by the accused to neglect in regards to the cash.
“When I known as, the variety of the accused was switched off. However, the accused subsequently made a WhatsApp name and claimed that we didn’t learn about their attain into higher-ups and we must always not complain or we are going to get killed,” he alleged. ACP-2 Rajnish Kumar advised TOI that groups have been shaped to arrest the accused.
