Hyderabad: Eleven more people, including three brokers and eight candidates, were arrested on Tuesday for their alleged role in irregularities in PG Medical Entrance Test conducted by Vijayawada-based Dr NTR University of Health Sciences (NTRUHS), police said.
The CID arrested 11 more culprits, who were allegedly also responsible for leak the printed question paper circulated to candidates and tutored them in various places, including Mumbai, Goa, Hyderabad and Bangalore, CID officials said.
As the CID probe revealed that the question paper was leaked from Manipal Printing Technologies Ltd in Manipal, the involvement of the press management and higher NTRUHS authorities continues to be under probe, they said, adding that during the investigation, the CID found that a lot of irregularities and procedural lapses were committed by university officials.
According to CID officials, one Ameer Ahmed of Davangere, who was earlier involved in a similar case in Bangalore along with one Rajagopal Reddy of Bangalore hatched a plan to get question papers being printed at Manipal Technologies Ltd, since most of the question papers of important entrance exams are printed here.
He had tried to join the press, but failed to do so.
