Jun 23, 2025 09:23 PM IST

In a NEET-UG 2023 examination scandal, a medical scholar acted as a proxy for an additional. The CBI has charged each with legal conspiracy, impersonation, and forgery.

In a case of actual life drawing inspiration from celluloid, a medical scholar allegedly appeared as a proxy for a candidate within the NEET-UG 2023 examination, ensuing within the latter’s admission to the MBBS course, à la “Munnabhai MBBS”.

The federal probe company has booked each underneath numerous sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita.(PTI)

Officials on Monday stated the CBI has booked Vikash, a resident of Rajasthan’s Jalore district, who allegedly appeared for Praveen Godara of Jodhpur within the NEET-UG held on May 7, 2023, on the Kendriya Vidyalaya in Sector 12, Dwarka, right here.

Godara has additionally been named as an accused within the FIR.

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Vikash, who was within the second 12 months of his MBBS course at Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar Medical College in Sirohi, allegedly mimicked Godara’s signature and handwriting on the NEET-UG 2023 attendance and reply sheets, the officers stated.

He allegedly went on to qualify for the examination as a proxy, securing a seat for Godara within the MBBS course on the Government Institute of Medical Sciences in Uttar Pradesh’s Noida.

“It has also been ascertained that both are presently pursuing the MBBS course at their respective medical colleges,” an official stated.

The federal probe company has booked them underneath Indian Penal Code sections 120-B (legal conspiracy), 419 (dishonest by impersonation), and 467 (forgery), amongst others, and corresponding Sections of the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023, the FIR acknowledged.

NEET-UG is carried out by the National Testing Agency for admissions to MBBS, BDS, AYUSH and different associated programs in authorities and personal establishments by which hundreds of thousands of scholars seem.

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