RGUHS exam scam: Four more in Central Crime Branch's net
Arrested include two former assistant registrars
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2015-08-10 07:08 GMT
BENGALURU: The Central Crime Branch (CCB) police probing the examination irregularities at Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) have arrested four people, including two former Assistant Registrars (Evaluation). The accused have been identified as Bhageerath Singh, a resident of Muthyala Nagar, Devendra Gouda Patil, 43, a resident of Jnanajyothinagar on Ullal Main Road, Dr. Shankar Gouda, 38, a resident of Sri Veera Pulikeshi Ayurvedic Medical College campus in Badami Taluk in Bagalkot district and Jayamadegowda, 48, a resident of Girinagar.
Among the accused, Devendra Gouda Patil and Shankar Gouda are former Assistant Registrars (Evaluation) of RGUHS, while Jayamadegowda is a senior assistant in the evaluation department. Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) M. Chandrashekar told reporters that totally six people have been arrested in connection with the anonymous complaint filed in July 2014 related to the irregularities in undergraduate and post-graduate medical examinations conducted by the university.
“A committee set up by the Registrar (Evaluation) had found that there were irregularities in the examinations. The irregularities were in connection with 32 papers related to 10 PG Medical students. Further investigation revealed that two more students were involved. Earlier, the CCB police had arrested RGUHS staff Dhananjaya and Mysore Medical College’s First Division Assistant V Sridhar in connection with the case,” he said.
“The investigation also revealed the involvement of four others and they were arrested on Saturday. Bhageerath Singh, a native of Rajasthan, used to get blank answer sheets before examinations, by paying Rs 10,000 per sheet, to Jayamadegowda and other daily wage workers. He used to give the blank answer sheets to those students who used to pay him. The students, even after attending the exams, wrote the right answers on the blank answer sheets provided by Singh. Before the answer sheets were sent for evaluation, the original answer scripts of those students were brought from the coding section of the university. The students were specifically told to write some secret code or symbol on their answer scripts so that the culprits could easily identify those papers and bring it out,” Chandrashekar said.
“Jayamadegowda and the two former Assistant Registrars (Evaluation) managed to bring those answer sheets out and gave it to Singh, who separated the covering sheets from the answer papers. Then he inserted the answer sheets written by the students after the exams and stitched it, before giving it to the trio. The students managed to get high scores in the exams. For UG exams, the students have paid between Rs 1-2 lakh while for PG exams, the accused were charging around Rs 2.50 lakh per paper,” he added.
Bhageerath Singh reportedly used to run a nursing college in Banasawadi, which he had shut down later. He was currently running a PG accommodation. “He was involved in this activity since 2010 and has also allegedly cheated several people by promising medical and engineering seats. It has to be investigated. Meanwhile, the students involved in irregularities have taken anticipatory bail. We suspect several others’ involvement in the case and they would be arrested soon,” a source said.