Telangana scraps EAMSAT-2 after CID confirms paper leak

July 30, 2016 08:39

Telangana government decides to scrap Engineering, Agriculture and Medical Common Entrance Test-2, 2016 after CID report confirms paper leak

The EAMSAT is the entry door to bachelor of medicine and surgery and bachelor of dental surgery courses in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. About 50,900 candidates took a shot at 2,650 MBBS and BDS seats up for grabs this year, making the medical entrance exam an intensely competitive one.

According to reports, every candidate buying a leaked question paper had to pay Rs 3-5 lakh. After receiving an advance of Rs 1 lakh from each student, the racketeers would hand them the question paper 48 hours before the common entrance test.

CID officials say that atleast 30 students benefited form the leak of the question paper and they were given special coaching in different places including Resonance Medical Academy at LB Nagar in Hyderabad.

Seven people have been arrested in this connection.

Three persons, including a Delhi-based printing press worker Shaikh Nishad, a Mumbai-based broker Guddu, and a coaching academy owner Venkat Rao, were arrested in Bengaluru on Wednesday night and were brought to Hyderabad for further questioning.

According to the CID officials, a repeat offender, Rajagopal Reddy from Bengaluru, was the kingpin behind the racket and had got the exam papers leaked from a Delhi printing press in complicity with six middlemen.

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