MBBS Aspirants seek admission at GSVM Medical college with Fake allotment letters, FIR registered
Kanpur: In a shocking discovery, the authorities of Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial found two female students seeking admission to MBBS course has submitted fake allotment letters. While one of those two students is the daughter of a doctor couple hailing from Gurugram, the other one belongs to Bijnor in Uttar Pradesh.
As per the students and their families, they paid around Rs 25 lakh and Rs 32 lakh to a consultancy firm in Ghaziabad and were issued the allotment letters in return, adds Hindustan Times. Already an FIR has been registered in this connection with the Swaroop Nagar Police Station.
This comes a week after a female student from Uttarakhand had approached the medical college seeking admission with similar allotment letters.
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As per the latest media report by Hindustan Times, the students approached the GSVM medical college and submitted their documents along with the allotment letters. It was during the scrutiny of the papers that the authorities found that the allotment letter had forged signatures of college officials along with wrong address, pin code and email id.
The students said that they got a call and consequently a meeting took place at Ghaziabad restaurant last month. At that time, they paid Rs 38,500 and Rs 50,000 in cash to a person identifying himself as Dr. KK Agarwal. However, as per the rules, the fees need to be deposited online.
While commenting on the matter, the principal of the medical college Dr. Sanjay Kala told HT, "I have informed the government and the police. An FIR has also been registered in this connection with the Swaroop Nagar police station."
Although only two students have been found in possession of such fake letters, the mother of one of those students claimed that several other similar cases will be reported shortly as the firm had collected Rs 2.5 crore from all the students who were present in the meeting.
"There will be more such cases that are going to be reported from other medical colleges," she added.
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