Meerut, March 21: The Special Task Force (STF) busted a gang of 600 fake doctors in Uttar Pradesh in connection with the Vyapam Scam.  Two students of Muzaffarnagar Medical College were arrested on Monday night in connection with 'Uttar Pradesh’s own Vyapam scam'.

At least 6 officials of Meerut’s Chaudhary Charan Singh University have been identified as being part of a gang that facilitated cheating. According to a report by TOI, the two students were arrested for paying Rs 1 lakh each to the cheating mafia that submitted answers written by experts in place of those written by the students in the examination.

As per details by the STF, the two students who have been arrested were introduced to scamsters by a second-year woman medical student who is already under the scanner but is yet to be arrested, a report by TOI informed. The STF has already sealed bundles of answer sheets of semester examinations conducted in 2017.

The report further adds that nine others, including six officials of Meerut’s Chaudhary Charan Singh University, one of UP's top varsities, have been identified for being a part of the racket. As per reports by Police, the racket which has been active since 2014, has helped over 600 non-meritorious students pass the MBBS examination and become doctors in the state. As per reports by the Police, the investigation is underway, and more names would come up in the coming days.

Reports further inform that students' exam copies were replaced with those meticulously solved by experts. The mafias charged Rs 1-1.5 lakh from medical students and Rs 30,000-40,000 from students of other professional courses at the university.

The Vyapam scam was an entrance examination, admission & recruitment scam that was unearthed in Madhya Pradesh in 2013. Other states of the country too witnessed similar incidences like this. The scam basically involves scamsters who systematically employ imposters to write papers, manipulate exam hall seating arrangements and supply forged answer sheets by bribing officials.

As per details by Brijesh Singh, in-charge of STF’s Meerut unit, the two met the woman student, who is their batchmate, following a bad semester exam on March 15. "She offered them the deal, as part of which freshly written copies by experts would be submitted instead of answers written by themselves. Later, the girl’s father brokered the deal with the cheating mafia", Singh added.

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