Three students were arrested by the STF in the BDS examination scam on Sunday.
With the arrests total number of detainees has increased to 21 and more arrests are expected in the scam. Two students were nabbed from RKDF College while one was detained from Bhabha Dental College. Nabbed students were studying in first year Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS). Virkant Martin and Shreyas latoria took help of the kingpin Sajjan Singh Parmar to clear the examinations when they were not able to the clear the exams while the third accused Faiz-Ul-Haq has taken help to increase his marks in the examination.
Shreyas and Faiz are students of RKDF Dental College while Vikrant Martin is student of Bhabha Dental College. The three would be produced in the court on Monday. Further detail could be revealed during further investigation, told STF officials. Earlier during the initial investigation the STF has registered a case against 19 more students but it has not been confirmed that the students nabbed on Sunday are among the 19 booked for forgery and fraud or these are nabbed after obtained fresh links in the case.
A nexus was unearthed after it was found that students appearing in BDS examination in the month of May –June took help for clearing examination from Sajjan Singh Parmar who used to facilitate clearing exams by writing answer copies with the help of hired writers and would charge somewhere in between Rs 20000 to Rs 30000.