NEET PG 2018: Aspirants get calls asking money for improving ranks, Police Investigation launched

The daily ads that one of the students came forward and informed that he got a call from a number 7370955495 by a man claiming to be one Yashvant Sinha posted as a Data Entry Operator in NEET, New Delhi. " He said that and he can manage to increase ranking in the NEET results for Rs  5 lakh.  He said fifty percent of the amount has to be paid in advance and remaining 50 percent after the results are out," the student requesting anonymity told Daily Pioneer.

The youth told Telegraph that his batchmate too got a similar call 15 minutes before him. "Gradually, we found out eight more candidates like us. The numbers they received calls from were 09007335911, 09934161248 and 8581058853. One of the callers identified himself as Gopal Madhav," said the aspirant.

With many students receiving similar calls, they approached the local IMA branch, which inturn filed a case with the DC. " It is uncanny that the caller knew everything about the aspirants including their IDs, their identification marks, etc. He further informed them that their ranks are low and can be improved in exchange of money. This needs to be thoroughly investigated. " Dr Mrityunjay told Medical Dialogues team.

The investigation has now been launched with the police enquiring on call details records (CDRs) of the cell phone numbers from which the calls were allegedly made to the students

"It is absolutely important that the police investigates the matter thoroughly. We cannot allow miscreants to play with the lives and careers of the students, " Dr Pradeep Singh State Secretary, IMA Jharkhand told Medical Dialogues team on the growing complaints in the area. He also advised students not to fall into the trap of such racketeers and immediately report the same.

Since NEET PG 2018 has been conducted, it has been dealing with a myriad of allegations. Activist Anand Rai had earlier alleged that mass level cheating had been done at many centres of the exam in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh.

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