PMT scam gets murkier, first scorer from state nabbed

BHOPAL: A senior student of Gajra Raja Medical College was arrested in Gwalior on Monday for reappearing in PMT and vacating the seat after it was allotted to him on payment of Rs1.25 lakh.
Jayprakash Baghel, a 2010 batch student of Gajra Raja Medical, who was arrested for re-appearing in PMT the next year and vacating the seat after clearing the entrance, is probably the first student of the state arrested for being a 'scorer' in the state, sources said.
All such students who gave examinations as 'scorers' for ensuring that fraudulent candidates passed entrance or for vacating seats were residents of other states.
Official sources said Baghel during interrogation told police he had re-appeared for entrance examination in 2011 to help his friend Sarvendra Jadaun. He had cleared the test but for participating in counselling for allotment of seats, he needed original mark-sheets of Class X and XII which were deposited at Gajra Raja Medical College, so Baghel and Jadaun bribed Parmanand Wadhwa, a clerk posted at the student section of the college, police said.
Wadhwa provided him his original mark-sheets against Rs 35,000 paid as bribe for few days, Baghel used this mark-sheet while appearing in counselling held in Bhopal and was allotted seat in Chirayu Medical College, Bhopal, police added.
Baghel told police after allotment, he applied for cancellation of seat in Chirayu for which he was provided Rs1.25 lakh by Jadaun.
The vacated seats were then 'passed on' to candidates, who were on waiting list, police said.
Both, Wadhwa and Baghel have been arrested and are being interrogated, police said.