Gurgaon: Eight persons have been arrested for allegedly trying to leak question papers of the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE) and attacking students who had gathered at a farmhouse in Nuh’s Tauru to collect them against a fee on Thursday.
The FMGE test, which allows medical graduates from other countries to practise in India, was held as scheduled on Saturday. Police claimed there was no paper leak.
Vinay Dahiya, a coaching centre owner, had called aspirants to the farmhouse on Hasanpur-Sabaras road in Tauru, promising papers of the screening test against Rs 4 lakh. Around Thursday noon, some 40 students gathered at the farmhouse for the papers. Within minutes, a group of around eight men, armed with sticks and a pistol, barged into the farmhouse and roughed up the students, claiming to be from the crime branch.
Sarkar Singh, who owns the farmhouse, said, “They posed as officials from Haryana Police’s crime branch and started assaulting the students. They also recorded videos and used them to blackmail those who had gathered there,” he added.
Singh claimed he was unaware of the paper leak plan and had just given out his farmhouse on rent. “I received a phone call, seeking the farmhouse for a session for medical students for Wednesday and Thursday. They gave me an advance of Rs 20,000 as well,” he told police.
Police said the attackers were from Rajasthan’s Sikar and belonged to Dahiya’s rival group. “Someone from the students present at the farmhouse had tipped them off that papers were being leaked there,” an officer said.
Police said some students who were questioned about their presence at the farmhouse failed to provide any satisfactory response.
The next day, six persons were arrested for the attack on the students. They were Dharmendra, Suresh, Vishnu, Ankit, Ajay, and Ravi.
Dahiya and an accomplice, Rakesh Bhandari — who was also present at the farmhouse on Thursday — were arrested on Saturday. While Dahiya was nabbed from Murthal, Bhandari was picked up from Ghaziabad.
Dahiya, police said, was previously arrested by the CBI in connection with the 2021 JEE (Mains) paper leak case.
The FMGE test, which allows medical graduates from other countries to practise in India, was held as scheduled on Saturday. Police claimed there was no paper leak.
Vinay Dahiya, a coaching centre owner, had called aspirants to the farmhouse on Hasanpur-Sabaras road in Tauru, promising papers of the screening test against Rs 4 lakh. Around Thursday noon, some 40 students gathered at the farmhouse for the papers. Within minutes, a group of around eight men, armed with sticks and a pistol, barged into the farmhouse and roughed up the students, claiming to be from the crime branch.
Sarkar Singh, who owns the farmhouse, said, “They posed as officials from Haryana Police’s crime branch and started assaulting the students. They also recorded videos and used them to blackmail those who had gathered there,” he added.
Singh claimed he was unaware of the paper leak plan and had just given out his farmhouse on rent. “I received a phone call, seeking the farmhouse for a session for medical students for Wednesday and Thursday. They gave me an advance of Rs 20,000 as well,” he told police.
Police said the attackers were from Rajasthan’s Sikar and belonged to Dahiya’s rival group. “Someone from the students present at the farmhouse had tipped them off that papers were being leaked there,” an officer said.
Police said some students who were questioned about their presence at the farmhouse failed to provide any satisfactory response.
The next day, six persons were arrested for the attack on the students. They were Dharmendra, Suresh, Vishnu, Ankit, Ajay, and Ravi.
Dahiya and an accomplice, Rakesh Bhandari — who was also present at the farmhouse on Thursday — were arrested on Saturday. While Dahiya was nabbed from Murthal, Bhandari was picked up from Ghaziabad.
Dahiya, police said, was previously arrested by the CBI in connection with the 2021 JEE (Mains) paper leak case.