Lucknow, 18 November: Taking major action in the case of fake admissions in Ayush colleges of the state, UP STF arrested 12 persons including suspended Ayurveda Director Prof SN Singh.
After their arrest on Thursday night, the STF produced all of them in the court, from where they were sent to jail in judicial custody. STF initiated action in this case after 13 days of investigation.
The mastermind of this murky game, counselling vendor Kuldeep Singh Verma is also among the arrested. STF sources said that all the layers of this rigging have been unravelled after Kuldeep spilled the beans.
On his information, suspended Ayurveda Director Prof. SN Singh, Admission Counseling Incharge Prof. Umakant Yadav, clerk Rajesh Singh and his associate clerk Kailash Chandra Bhaskar, who were responsible for collecting counseling fees in the Directorate of Ayurveda, were arrested. Apart from this, 8 employees associated with counselling agency B3 Soft Solution have also been arrested.
All the arrested include suspended Ayurveda Director SN Singh, in-charge of Ayurveda Services Dr. Umakant Yadav and Kuldeep Singh along with Prabodh Singh, Rupesh Srivastava, Gaurav Kumar Gupta of V-Three Soft Solutions, Harshvardhan Tiwari alias Sonal, Saurabh Maurya, Indradev Mishra, Kailash Chandra Bhaskar , Rupesh Ranjan Pandey and Kanpur resident Rajesh Singh.
It was the responsibility of Prof SN Singh to get the admission done safely, which he could not fulfill fairly. It is being said that Prof. SN Singh in connivance with Kuldeep committted big rigging in the admissions of colleges.The officer in charge of the directorate, Prof Umakant Yadav and Babu Rajesh Singh, who looks after the work of finance, also were parts of the irregularities.
Arrested Prof. Singh had filed a case on November 4 at the Hazratganj police station. He appointed Uptron Powertronics Ltd., the executive body for admission counseling. He had named accused Kuldeep, the operator of the vendor V-3 solution behind the game. It is said that by tampering with the original database of NEET result and the authorized website such students were admitted who did not fulfill the qualification through the online process in UG courses,.
Thus, manipulating the database, 891 such students were admitted. Out of these, 22 students had not appeared in NEET, while the merit of others was very less. The state government has already recommended the central government to investigate the matter with the CBI.
Since the registration of the FIR, the STF was continuously questioning all of them. When STF got the data of change in merit and ranking of NEET, the case started opening up. The errors were confirmed by making all of them sit in front of them. After getting important evidence in the investigation, the STF arrested these 12 accused.
