Lucknow, May 4 (UNI) Special Task Force (STF) of Uttar Pradesh busted a gang that rigged NEET-UG examinations in exchange of money and arrested three accused from Noida on Sunday, an official spokesman said.

The spokesman said that during intelligence collection on Saturday, the Noida unit of the STF received was tipped of by an informer that some people are demanding money over the phone from the relatives of the candidates appearing in the NEET-UG examination to be held on Sunday in the name of helping them pass the examination. "It was revealed that the office of the people of the gang is located in Sector-3 Noida under Police Station Phase-1 area," he said.

He said that after developing this information, the team of STF Noida unit immediately reached the spot and arrested three accused. "The arrested accused have been identified as Vikram Kumar Shah, Dharampal Singh and Aniket Kumar, all residents of Delhi. Six mobile phones, four personal mobile phones, two forged Aadhaar cards, data sheets of candidates, PAN cards, credit cards, voter cards, passports, cheque books and a laptop were recovered from them," he said.

The spokesman said that during interrogation, the arrested accused Vikram revealed that in the year 2011, from Darbhanga in Bihar he went to Vinayaka Mission University, Chennai where he took admission for graduation in Biotechnology. "It was here that he met Aniket and both of them together started doing the work of getting admissions done in Vinayaka on 30 percent commission," he said.

He said that after completing post graduation, Vikram came to Delhi, where he met Dharampal Singh and registered a company named Apmu here and collected the data of MBBS candidates and started cheating by calling them and taking money in the name of getting admission. "They used to demand Rs 5 lakh per candidate in the name of getting them passed," he said.

The spokesman said that the accused used to take money in the account and through PDC cheque and used to say that only those answers which came while giving the exam should be filled in the OMR sheet and the rest should be left blank. "They used to take out this OMR sheet and ask to fill in the correct answer," he said.

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