Kingpin of medical admission racket arrested in MP

In a major breakthrough, Kolkata's Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested the prime accused of an inter-state racket which actively duped students after taking lakhs of rupees from them to assist with admissions in medical colleges.

A senior CID officer said that the accused, Vishnu Prasad Chaubey alias KN Jha, was arrested from near his residence in Gorakhpur near Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, late on Thursday night.

Acting on a tip off, a team comprising of senior CID officers went to Jabalpur and arrested the accused who had managed to spread his tentacles across several states, duping several students after assuring admission through quota seats at medical colleges in Kolkata, Bengaluru, Katihar and Siliguri. The police had earlier arrested Sumantra Gupta, a resident of Siliguri and close associate of Vishnu, in this connection.

A complaint was lodged at Siliguri police station on November 22, 2015, against the miscreants who had been rampantly duping students against lakhs of money. The case was initiated based on a complaint from a student from Andaman who had cleared class-XII level board examinations in 2012.