Medical Admission Scam

The former working president of Kolhapur-based Shri Chhatrapati Shivaji Education Society (SCSES) and other accused had collected over Rs 65 crore from medical aspirants for admission in a college run by the trust, the Enforcement Directorate said.

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has granted conditional bail to nine former officials of private medical colleges accused of cheating, forgery among other offences related to pre-medical test PMT-2013 for admissions to MBBS course.

A scandal involving the NEET medical entrance examinations that saw an attempt to use proxies to clear the test and payments of Rs 50 lakh per candidate has been unearthed, CBI sources said on Wednesday, amid an uproar over suicides by students crush

A massive medical admission scam has surfaced in Karnataka after the income tax department raided three institutes and found evidence that indicated a cash-for-seat arrangement, with the amount reaching up to Rs 60 lakh per seat, sources said.

The CBI has arrested Bhopal's L.N. Medical College Chairman J.N. Chouksey in connection with admission irregularities pertaining to the Pre-Medical Test 2012 conducted by the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board or Vyapam, an official said on Thursday.

The government has no role to play in the removal of Justice SN Shukla -- the Allahabad High Court judge who was accused of misconduct in the medical admissions scam -- sources told NDTV. Last week, after adverse remarks from a judicial committee that examined his role, Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra wrote to President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime...

A judge of the Allahabad High Court, indicted by a committee of judges for misconduct in the medical admissions scam, should be removed, Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra has told President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, sources said. As the first step, the judicial functions of Justice SN Shukla were withdrawn last week followi...

The future of over 200 students, who took admission in four private medical colleges of Madhya Pradesh through management quota on a hefty payment, might hang in the balance after a CBI probe into a Vyapam case claimed irregularities in their selection.

Puducherry L-G Kiran Bedi today alleged that Chief Minister V Narayanasamy was "threatening" her for her views on alleged medical admission scam, hours after the Chief Minister accused her of making derogatory statements against him and said he would sue her for defamation.

Puducherry Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi today said her office has sought a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into alleged corruption in admission of students to postgraduate courses by private medical colleges in the Union Territory.

A Chennai-based film producer who faces charges of fixing medical seats on the side is back in trouble. S Madhan has been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on charges of laundering crores of rupees allegedly collected last year from students aspiring to get into a medical college.

Congress demanded the resignation of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan after the Supreme Court upheld the cancellation of admissions of 634 students in various medical colleges of the state through the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board test, popularly called 'Vyapam' test.

After an intensive manhunt spanning nearly six months, film producer Madhan, allegedly involved in a multi-crore medical admission scam in which 123 persons were allegedly cheated, was arrested on Monday, police said.

The Supreme Court on Thursday cancelled all counselling and admissions to undergraduate medical courses to both government and private medical colleges in Madhya Pradesh and ordered the process be held afresh through centralised counselling by the state government.

A few days before they appeared for the EAMCET- 2, a common entrance test for admission to medical and dental colleges, more than 70 students from Telangana caught flights out to Mumbai, Bengaluru and Kanigiri in Andhra Pradesh, in multiple batches, a police investigation has revealed.

The former working president of Kolhapur-based Shri Chhatrapati Shivaji Education Society (SCSES) and other accused had collected over Rs 65 crore from medical aspirants for admission in a college run by the trust, the Enforcement Directorate said.

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has granted conditional bail to nine former officials of private medical colleges accused of cheating, forgery among other offences related to pre-medical test PMT-2013 for admissions to MBBS course.

A scandal involving the NEET medical entrance examinations that saw an attempt to use proxies to clear the test and payments of Rs 50 lakh per candidate has been unearthed, CBI sources said on Wednesday, amid an uproar over suicides by students crush

A massive medical admission scam has surfaced in Karnataka after the income tax department raided three institutes and found evidence that indicated a cash-for-seat arrangement, with the amount reaching up to Rs 60 lakh per seat, sources said.

The CBI has arrested Bhopal's L.N. Medical College Chairman J.N. Chouksey in connection with admission irregularities pertaining to the Pre-Medical Test 2012 conducted by the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board or Vyapam, an official said on Thursday.

The government has no role to play in the removal of Justice SN Shukla -- the Allahabad High Court judge who was accused of misconduct in the medical admissions scam -- sources told NDTV. Last week, after adverse remarks from a judicial committee that examined his role, Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra wrote to President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime...

A judge of the Allahabad High Court, indicted by a committee of judges for misconduct in the medical admissions scam, should be removed, Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra has told President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, sources said. As the first step, the judicial functions of Justice SN Shukla were withdrawn last week followi...

The future of over 200 students, who took admission in four private medical colleges of Madhya Pradesh through management quota on a hefty payment, might hang in the balance after a CBI probe into a Vyapam case claimed irregularities in their selection.

Puducherry L-G Kiran Bedi today alleged that Chief Minister V Narayanasamy was "threatening" her for her views on alleged medical admission scam, hours after the Chief Minister accused her of making derogatory statements against him and said he would sue her for defamation.

Puducherry Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi today said her office has sought a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into alleged corruption in admission of students to postgraduate courses by private medical colleges in the Union Territory.

A Chennai-based film producer who faces charges of fixing medical seats on the side is back in trouble. S Madhan has been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on charges of laundering crores of rupees allegedly collected last year from students aspiring to get into a medical college.

Congress demanded the resignation of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan after the Supreme Court upheld the cancellation of admissions of 634 students in various medical colleges of the state through the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board test, popularly called 'Vyapam' test.

After an intensive manhunt spanning nearly six months, film producer Madhan, allegedly involved in a multi-crore medical admission scam in which 123 persons were allegedly cheated, was arrested on Monday, police said.

The Supreme Court on Thursday cancelled all counselling and admissions to undergraduate medical courses to both government and private medical colleges in Madhya Pradesh and ordered the process be held afresh through centralised counselling by the state government.

A few days before they appeared for the EAMCET- 2, a common entrance test for admission to medical and dental colleges, more than 70 students from Telangana caught flights out to Mumbai, Bengaluru and Kanigiri in Andhra Pradesh, in multiple batches, a police investigation has revealed.