Deccan Chronicle

BTech graduate held for cheating students CULPRITS TRACED CANDIDATES THROUGH NEET DATA ONLINE

-

A BTech graduate and his associate were nabbed by the West Zone Task Force team for cheating students on the pretext of providing them seats in top medical colleges in Bangaluru and charging them lakhs of rupees. Officials seized approximat­ely ` 25 lakh from their possession along with visiting cards and other incriminat­ing materials.

The men were identified as Abhimanyu Kumar Singh alias Dinesh Kumar Singh alias Arnav Kumar Singh, 35, the mastermind behind the scam, and Suryanaray­ana Jha alias Deepak alias Rishikanth alias Chandra Prakash, 30, a medical representa­tive, both natives of Bihar. Police said that two more men, identified as Kamran Hussain alias Shashank Shekhar alias Abhinav Kishore, and Asgar Sayeed alias Abhay, were absconding.

A BTech (CSE) graduate and son of a medical officer at Darbhanga Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) in Bihar, Abhimanyu Kumar Singh was into medicine transport business at Bihar, said police commission­er of Hyderabad Anjani Kumar. “Suryanaray­ana works as a medical representa­tive at MP Health Care in Darbhanga of Bihar and the duo are friends from childhood. Kamran Hussain and Asgar Sayeed got acquainted with Abhimanyu Kumar about three years ago. Due to financial problems, they hatched a plan to cheat innocent needy persons under the guise of providing medical college seats in Bangaluru colleges by taking and approached them to arrange for seats in medical colleges.

In April 2017, they establishe­d a consultanc­y called Sky Bridge Infotech Consultant­s in Somajiguda, Police Commission­er of Hyderabad, Anjani Kumar said.

“They lured the innocent students claiming that they would arrange medical seats for them in any medical college in Bangalore as per the availabili­ty of seats. They asked for `60 to `80 lakh for each seat including their commission. Accordingl­y, they collected `48 lakh from 18 candidates and then fled after closing the office,” he said. huge amounts of money from them,” said the official.

The victims, upon realising they had been cheated, approached the police and lodged a complaint. A probe was launched and based on a tip off, the West Zone Task Force team caught the men and recovered cash, mobiles and materials from them. The duo, along with the recovered property, were handed over to Panjagutta police.

Newspapers in English

Newspapers from India