Saturday | May 17 2025 | 08:15:11 AM
New Delhi, May 6
The Special Task Force (STF) of the Uttar Pradesh Police arrested three people for allegedly offering National Eligibility cum Entrance Test – Undergraduate (NEET-UG) candidates help to crack the examination through unfair means in exchange for money.
The three accused have been identified as Vikram Kumar Shah, Aniket Kumar, and Dharampal Singh. Shah and Kumar are residents of Lakshmi Nagar in Delhi whereas Singh stays in the Sagarpur area of the national capital.
The police stated that they received a tipoff from informants that some suspects were calling relatives of NEET aspirants and offering them deals to pass the test. The police teams then raided the office in Sector-3 at night and arrested the three men and also seized 10 mobile phones, a MacBook, credit, PAN, and Aadhaar cards, examination ID cards, a Fortuner car, and data sheets of candidates from their possession.
During the interrogation, the accused Vikram Kumar claimed that he met Aniket Kumar at the Vinayaka Missions University, Chennai, while he was studying Biotechnology there in 2011. In case the candidate could not clear the exam, they used to ignore their calls or change the location and then move to find new targets.
With complaints piling up against the company, the suspects shut it down in 2023 and started a new firm, Shreyanvi Edu OPC Pvt Ltd, in Noida to continue duping NEET aspirants.
The police have registered an FIR under sections 318 (cheating), 319 (cheating by personation), 336, 337, 338, and 340 (all related to forgery), and 61(2) (criminal conspiracy) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
