NEET list forged in Uttar Pradesh: Ayurveda Dept ex-director, 14 others charged by Special Task Force

Lucknow: While probing the AYUSH admission scam, the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (UPSTF) has now charged the former director of Ayurveda Department, counselling in charge and 13 others for forging the NEET merit list.

In this regard, the STF has filed a charge sheet in a Lucknow local court on Tuesday. Former Ayurveda director SN Singh, counselling in charge Umakant Yadav, former senior assistant director, Ayurveda, Rajesh Singh, and former junior assistant in ayurveda directorate Kailash Chandra Bhaskar have been named in the charge sheet.

Apart from them Uptron Powertronics director Kuldeep Verma, AGM, Uptron, Prabodh Singh, directors of private companies Gaurav Gupta, Harshwardhan Tiwari, Saurabh Maurya, Indradev Mishra, Rupesh Ranjan Pandey, Vijay Yadav, along with managers of private firms Alok Trivedi, Dharmendra and Vijay have also been named by the STF.

All of them have been charged under sections 420 (cheating), 467 (forgery), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), and 471 (fraudulently using documents) of the IPC, and under the Prevention of Corruption Act.

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As per the latest media report by Free Press Journal, the UP Task force had been asked for conducting an investigation in this regard after it came into notice last November that hundreds of students got admitted to the Ayurveda colleges belonging to Uttar Pradesh even though they had not been named in the NEET merit list. Therefore, such students had been admitted after forging the original NEET merit list.

In fact, the State Government of Uttar Pradesh had also ordered CBI inquiry in this regard. Such anomalies in the AYUSH admission had been first detected by the Union Ministry of AYUSH regarding the admission of UG medical courses in Ayurvedic, Unani and Homeopathy colleges.

Times of India adds that during that probe it was revealed that the accused SN Singh, along with two other officials and the organzing private firm, Solf Solution Private Limited, had allegedly tampered with the data that they had got from the Directorate. Due to this, undeserving candidates secured admission in the AYUSH colleges of the State.

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