In a scene straight out of the famous Bollywood movie, ‘Munna Bhai MBBS’, some students impersonated the real candidates and appeared in the examination of the Uttarakhand Ayurveda Pre- Medical Test (UAPMT) on Sunday. However, the police got a whiff of their plan and apprehended them.
The examination for entrance in the Ayurveda colleges of the State was held in 19 centres in the State on Sunday. On a tip-off a police team raided three examination centres in the State capital and found that some students were giving examination in place of the actual aspirants. The kingpin of the gang was one Prahlad Yadav who is a student of final year MBBS of a medical college in Uttar Pradesh. The police team is investigating the case and is on the lookout of the candidates who hired these impersonators to write the examination in their place.
The Registrar of the Uttarakhand Ayurveda University, Harrawala, Mritunjay Mishra said that 12 impersonators were caught by the police. He claimed that the university had got information that some students are impersonating the real candidates and would sit in the examination following which the police was informed.
Explaining the modus operandi of the gang, Mishra said that an elaborate plan was made by them in which the photographs of the impersonator was placed in the application form in place of the aspirant so that the photograph in the admit card does not mismatched with the impersonator in the examination hall.
He said that the police acted with appreciable swiftness and foiled the plan of the gang. It is learnt that the gang demanded a sum of Rs2 lakhs for providing solver for to aspirants. Mishra said that while the police are investigating the case anyone having information about those involved in this activity should provide it to the university on registrar@uau.ac.in. He added that the identity of the person providing information would be kept secret.
The examination for 210 seats of BAMS course in Ayurveda colleges of the state was being held in 12 centres of Dehradun, four centres of Haldwani, two of Srinagar and one in Ranikhet.
The CO city, Manoj Katyal told The Pioneer that the Prahlad Yadav a resident of Ballia in Uttar Pradesh appears to be the master mind of the whole episode. He said that the police have arrested nine culprits and are in look out of the other persons involved. The arrested include Prahlad Yadav a resident of Balia, Pramod Yadav a resident of Aajamgarh, SK Singh (Siwan Bihar), Ashish Kumar (Haridwar), Mahesh Gautam (Begusarai, Bihar) and Amit Kumar (Patna Bihar). Prahlad was writing the examination of Mohammad Adanan of Haridwar similarly Amit Kumar was impersonating as Sher Mohammad. One team of police has left for Haridwar for search operation.