Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Students used bluetooth, cell cameras to leak AIIMS test
New Delhi, January 10: Five persons, including an MBBS student, were arrested for their alleged involvement in leaking the question paper of the All India Post Graduate Medical Entrance Examination, conducted by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Sunday.
Police said Mohit Chaudhury, a second-year MBBS student at a medical college in Ujjain, was the mastermind of the racket which involved the use of Bluetooth technology and software. They were feeding six candidates, including a doctor from a medical college in Rohtak.
According to police, the accused would take photos of the question paper and transfer images to an expert at a centre in Greater Noida. Police, however, arrested five persons before the examination got over.
They had used mobile phones, handsfree devices and skin-colour earphones, connected via Bluetooth and stitched inside specially designed shirts.
The examination was meant to fill 50 per cent post-graduate seats in government colleges across the country and was being held at 156 centres.
Chaudhury was the first to be arrested. Kapil Kumar (27), an MBA from Jamia Millia Islamia, Krishan Pratap Singh (27), an MBA from IIMT-Meerut, Dr Amit Punia (23), an MBBS from PGIMS Rohtak, and Bhishma Singh (27), a computer programmer, were arrested later.
Police said the accused planned to charge the candidates between Rs 35 lakh and Rs 40 lakh, after completion of the examination. To ensure payment was made, the accused kept with them original certificates of the candidates.
Chaudhury was arrested after police received a tip-off that he would be coming to meet his associates at Pragati Maidan and would be carrying the question booklet. “The Maruti car was intercepted and 23 pages of the question booklet were recovered from Chaudhury, a resident of Bulandshahr in UP,” said Ashok Chand, DCP (Crime).
“A team was then sent with the booklet to AIIMS to verify if the recovered copy tallied with the original question booklet. The Controller of Examination confirmed that it was a true copy,” Chand said.
Chand said Kumar and Singh were appearing for the entrance tests, posing as doctors and on false MBBS registration numbers. Both had a mobile phone and a Bluetooth device stitched into their shirts.
“They took the photos of the booklet and forwarded the images to Chaudhury,” said Sanjay Bhatia, Additional DCP (Crime).
--Agencies--
Police said Mohit Chaudhury, a second-year MBBS student at a medical college in Ujjain, was the mastermind of the racket which involved the use of Bluetooth technology and software. They were feeding six candidates, including a doctor from a medical college in Rohtak.
According to police, the accused would take photos of the question paper and transfer images to an expert at a centre in Greater Noida. Police, however, arrested five persons before the examination got over.
They had used mobile phones, handsfree devices and skin-colour earphones, connected via Bluetooth and stitched inside specially designed shirts.
The examination was meant to fill 50 per cent post-graduate seats in government colleges across the country and was being held at 156 centres.
Chaudhury was the first to be arrested. Kapil Kumar (27), an MBA from Jamia Millia Islamia, Krishan Pratap Singh (27), an MBA from IIMT-Meerut, Dr Amit Punia (23), an MBBS from PGIMS Rohtak, and Bhishma Singh (27), a computer programmer, were arrested later.
Police said the accused planned to charge the candidates between Rs 35 lakh and Rs 40 lakh, after completion of the examination. To ensure payment was made, the accused kept with them original certificates of the candidates.
Chaudhury was arrested after police received a tip-off that he would be coming to meet his associates at Pragati Maidan and would be carrying the question booklet. “The Maruti car was intercepted and 23 pages of the question booklet were recovered from Chaudhury, a resident of Bulandshahr in UP,” said Ashok Chand, DCP (Crime).
“A team was then sent with the booklet to AIIMS to verify if the recovered copy tallied with the original question booklet. The Controller of Examination confirmed that it was a true copy,” Chand said.
Chand said Kumar and Singh were appearing for the entrance tests, posing as doctors and on false MBBS registration numbers. Both had a mobile phone and a Bluetooth device stitched into their shirts.
“They took the photos of the booklet and forwarded the images to Chaudhury,” said Sanjay Bhatia, Additional DCP (Crime).
--Agencies--
Teenager sentenced for raping maid appeals
Dubai, January 10: An Arab teenager accused of raping an African househelp who alleged that she gave birth to his baby has appealed to the Ras Al Khaimah Court of Cassation.
The Court of First Instance as well as the Court of Appeal sentenced both the 15-year-old boy and the maid to three months imprisonment, reported 'Al Khaleej' newspaper.
The incident came to light two years ago when the teenager's family accompanied the housemaid to hospital for delivery and learnt she had no marriage certificate. Hospital authorities informed police.
On questioning, she allegedly confessed that she became pregnant after a relationship with the teenager.
---Emirates
The Court of First Instance as well as the Court of Appeal sentenced both the 15-year-old boy and the maid to three months imprisonment, reported 'Al Khaleej' newspaper.
The incident came to light two years ago when the teenager's family accompanied the housemaid to hospital for delivery and learnt she had no marriage certificate. Hospital authorities informed police.
On questioning, she allegedly confessed that she became pregnant after a relationship with the teenager.
---Emirates
PM: 42% Malnutrition childrens, National shame
The report says that one in three malnourished children in the world is an Indian.
The Prime Minister's called the findings a national shame while pointing out that only one in five Indian children had acceptable levels of nutrition. The report reveals that malnutrition is extremely severe in 73,0000 households in 112 districts in seven of the poorest states.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called malnutrition in the country "a national shame" on Tuesday as he released a major survey that found 42% of children under five were underweight.
"The problem of malnutrition is a national shame," the Prime Minister said while releasing the first-ever citizens' report on child malnutrition.
The statistics in the HUNGaMA (Hunger and Malnutrition) report say that every third malnourished child on the planet is an Indian. The report, on the survey conducted by Naandi Foundation, has been made at the insistence of the Citizens' Alliance against Malnutrition.
Manmohan Singh said that the government cannot rely solely on the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) to tackle malnutrition. "Despite impressive growth in our GDP, the level of malnutrition is unacceptably high," he said.
Pointing out that India had not succeeded in reducing the levels of malnutrition fast enough, he said, "Though the ICDS continues to be our most important tool to fight malnutrition, we can no longer rely solely on it."
"What concerns me is that 42 per cent of our children are still underweight. This is an unacceptably high occurrence," he said.
"Despite impressive growth in our GDP, the level of under-nutrition in the country is unacceptably high. We have also not succeeded in reducing this rate fast enough," the 79-year-old prime minister added.
Singh said the findings of the report by an alliance of non-government organisations were both "worrying and encouraging."
Malnutrition among children had come down, he said, but remained an "unacceptably high occurrence."
"What concerns me is that 42% of our children are still underweight," he added.
The Prime Minister has announced multi-sectoral programmes for 200 districts that have high malnutrition levels.
100 worst districts are in the poorer states. "The result of the survey is both worrying and encouraging," the Prime Minister said.
Agencies
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