They entered Indias top engineering colleges and then went about helping others get in for a price. Police in Patna say they have busted a racket in which enginnering graduates and B.Tech students,including one from IIT Delhi,impersonated aspirants from Bihar,Orissa,Jharkhand,UP and Delhi at entrance exams. A Patna Police team swooped on Kaushal Kumar,a B.Tech from an Orissa engineering college and the alleged kingpin of the racket,in Bhubaneswar today. Three others IIT Delhi student Ankur Agrawal,Kalinga Engineering College student Abhinav Anand,and Gopalganj (Bihar) resident Ajay Anand were arrested from a hotel in Patna on Thursday. Ajay secured the 6,814th rank at the AIEEE this year,allegedly after Ankur appeared for him. Now that we have arrested the ringleader Kaushal,we will get to know the full spread of the network,and whether it involves other students from IITs, Patna SP Manu Maharaj told The Indian Express. Maharaj said Kaushal ran a placement cell and facilitated engineering admissions,but later switched to getting engineering students to write entrance exams for others. Abhinav s job was to scout for talented students willing to impersonate for money. Abhinav,who knew Ankur from their days together at coaching institutes in Kota,convinced him to appear for four engineering entrance exams in 2009 and 2010, Maharaj said. Ankur,he added,cracked exams for three fake candidates: two in 2009,one in 2010. Gandhi Maidan police station in-charge Inspector Aman Kumar,who arrested Ankur and Abhinav,said Kaushal collected Rs 4 lakh from each successful candidate. Ankur was likely to get Rs 1 lakh as his share from the deal struck with Ajay Anand. We seized Rs 60 lakh in cash and some photocopies of admission cards, Inspector Kumar said. Ankur,he said,had come to Patna to collect his money.
