NEET case: Father, son confess to crime, arrested
Channel: Sicp
Date: 2019-09-28

NEET case: Father, son confess to crime, arrested

Father says he paid a broker who arranged an impersonator to write the exam, son not aware of the arrangements; search on for broker

THENI/CHENNAI: THE CB-CID sleuths on Thursday arrested Dr. Venkatesh and his son Udit Suriya over charges of using an impersonator to clear the NEET and get medical admission. They were produced before the judicial magistrate court in Theni and remanded later in the evening for 15 days. While the family was picked up from a hideout in Tirupati on Wednesday, they were arrested only on Thursday after questioning.

Sources say Udit and his father have confessed to have colluded and engaged an impersonator to write the NEET on his behalf.The student’s mother has not been arrested. Senior officials are continuing inquiries with the father-son duo, added sources. Venkatesh, they said, who practices at the government Stanley Hospital, had contacts with a broker who engaged an impersonator to appear on Udit’s behalf for the exam in Mumbai.      

Venkatesh is understood to have said that he wanted to see his son become a doctor, and hence he made such an arrangement. He paid the broker who arranged an impersonator to write the exam. Venkatesh also allegedly said that his son Udit was not aware of the arrangements he had made for the exam. Sources said a hunt had been launched for the broker. Two CB-CID teams have left for Maharashtra in search of this broker. The police team has also appealed to other states to check if similar cases have been registered.

Medico, his father shifted to Madurai Central Prison

Theni medico Udit Surya K.V. and his father Dr. Venkatesan were shifted to the Madurai Central Prison from the Theni district jail early on Friday.

Sources said Dr. Venkatesan’s lawyers pleaded for an ‘A’ class cell, citing that he was a government doctor.

As the Theni prison lacked the facilities, they were moved to the Madurai Central Prison. A judicial magistrate’s court in Theni had remanded them to judicial custody in the case of alleged impersonation in NEET.

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