Student assault exposes unravelling of paper leak scheme

Eight individuals were apprehended for purportedly attempting to disclose question papers of the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE) and assaulting students who had assembled at a farmhouse in Tauru, Nuh, to obtain them for a fee on Thursday. The FMGE test, enabling medical graduates from other nations to practice in India, proceeded as planned 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. 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 his associate, Rakesh Bhandari, who was also present at the farmhouse on Thursday, were detained on Saturday. Dahiya was apprehended in Murthal, while Bhandari was taken into custody in Ghaziabad. According to the police, Dahiya had been previously arrested by the CBI in connection with the 2021 JEE (Mains) paper leak case.