Jun 23, 2025 09:23 PM IST
In a NEET-UG 2023 examination scandal, a medical scholar acted as a proxy for one more. The CBI has charged each with legal conspiracy, impersonation, and forgery.
In a case of actual life drawing inspiration from celluloid, a medical scholar allegedly appeared as a proxy for a candidate within the NEET-UG 2023 examination, ensuing within the latter’s admission to the MBBS course, à la “Munnabhai MBBS”.
Officers on Monday mentioned the CBI has booked Vikash, a resident of Rajasthan’s Jalore district, who allegedly appeared for Praveen Godara of Jodhpur within the NEET-UG held on Could 7, 2023, on the Kendriya Vidyalaya in Sector 12, Dwarka, right here.
Godara has additionally been named as an accused within the FIR.
Vikash, who was within the second 12 months of his MBBS course at Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar Medical Faculty in Sirohi, allegedly mimicked Godara’s signature and handwriting on the NEET-UG 2023 attendance and reply sheets, the officers mentioned.
He allegedly went on to qualify for the examination as a proxy, securing a seat for Godara within the MBBS course on the Authorities Institute of Medical Sciences in Uttar Pradesh’s Noida.
“It has additionally been ascertained that each are presently pursuing the MBBS course at their respective medical faculties,” an official mentioned.
The federal probe company has booked them below Indian Penal Code sections 120-B (legal conspiracy), 419 (dishonest by impersonation), and 467 (forgery), amongst others, and corresponding Sections of the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023, the FIR said.
NEET-UG is carried out by the Nationwide Testing Company for admissions to MBBS, BDS, AYUSH and different associated programs in authorities and personal establishments through which tens of millions of scholars seem.
