Haryana Police on Monday claimed to have busted a gang, involved in duping people by taking lakhs of rupees from them for admission to MBBS course in Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences Wardha at Maharashtra.
A spokesman of the Police Department said that Om Parkash, a resident of Gurgaon, had got registered a complaint at Police Station, Mansa Devi Complex, Panchkula, stating that he has been duped of Rs 17 lakhs for the admission of his daughter to MBBS course in Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences.
The police brought two accused namely Ishwar Singh alias Sumit , a resident of Hisar and Mahender Singh alias Pankaj , a resident of village Nandhori in district Fatehabad on production warrant from Ambala Jail.
During the investigation, they revealed the name of their accomplice, Ashok Kumar of Hisar, who was relative of Sumit Garg who is still absconding. Further investigations revealed that for the admission to this institute, about eight fake bank accounts were opened in government and non-government banks in which admission fee for the course used to be deposited by the candidates.
A centre of office of the institute was also running at Swastik Vihar, Mansa Devi Complex, Panchkula. Cases of fraud are already registered against them in Punjab, Haryana, Delhi and Noida. In order to arrest others involved in the gang, the accused have been taken into five days police remand, added the spokesperson.