Forgery Fallout: NEET 2025 Aspirant in Kerala Caught with Fake Hall Ticket, 1 Arrested
Kerala- The Pathanamthitta police have recently arrested an employee of Akshaya Centre in Neyyattinkara for preparing fake hall tickets for the National Eligibility and Entrance (NEET) test. The arrest followed the detention of a 20-year-old student from Parassala in Thiruvananthapuram who had attempted to write the NEET exam at the Government Higher Secondary School, Thycavu, Pathanamthitta, using a fake admit card.
The incident came to light on Sunday when the student, after initially arriving at Mar Thoma HSS in Pathanamthitta, later approached the Thycavu school. Suspecting a clerical error, officials temporarily allowed him to start taking the exam. However, a detailed verification revealed that the hall ticket was forged and based on this finding, the student was stopped from writing the exam.
The candidate has been identified as a resident of Parasala in Kerala. After the case came to light, the candidate who appeared for the exam with a fake hall ticket and his mother were also questioned. However, the police released them after questioning. Both of them had to remain in custody for 24 hours for the incident.
Following the incident, the Pathanamthitta police reached the arrested employee's house in the morning and took her into custody after she confessed to the crime. According to her confession, despite taking a fee of Rs 1850, she forgot to apply. To escape from the student and his parents, she tampered with the hall ticket of a student named Abhiram and made it in the name of the concerned candidate, reports Kerala Kaumudi.
The employee thought that if the exam centre chosen was far from his home, the student would not appear for the exam. When she searched on Google, she found last year's centre, Marthoma Higher Secondary School in Pathanamthitta. It was added to the hall ticket, but the barcode and certificate could not be edited.
Meanwhile, the officer in charge of the exam suspected that the aspirant's hall ticket was fake, but on the instructions of the state exam coordinator, the student was allowed to take the exam so as not to lose the opportunity. By checking the barcode, the real student and the centre in Thiruvananthapuram where he was taking the exam were identified.
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