NEET 2021 Cheating: Father Paid Rs 50 Lakh to Get Daughter Seat in Medical College, Both Held

Varanasi Police Commissioner A Satish Ganesh said on Monday that this is the first arrest of a candidate in the NEET solver gang case.

Varanasi police have arrested a father-daughter duo in connection with the NEET exam solver gang. According to the police, the father had connected with the gang to help get his daughter a seat in a reputed medical college. He had allegedly paid Rs 50 lakh for the same.

Police investigation revealed that Gopal Vishwas, a resident of Dhulai district of Tripura in Varanasi admitted that he had contacted Tripura’s Pradipta Bhattacharya and Mrityunjay Devnath to get his daughter admitted to the medical course.The Commissioner of Police said that during interrogation, Vishwas has admitted that he had contacted Tripura's Pradipta Bhattacharya and Mrityunjay Devnath to get his daughter admitted to the medical course. The deal was fixed for Rs 50 lakh.

This gang used to make proxy candidates take exams. An expert or a medical student would impersonate as a class 12 student to take the medical entrance exam, as per the plan. This plan was busted in NEET 2021 when Julie Kumari, a student of Banaras Hindu University (BHU), was caught taking the exam at the place of another student.

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