CHENNAI: The impersonation levelled against a first year student of the Theni Govt Medical College has been transferred to the CB-CID police for investigation.
The student Udit Surya K.V., against whom the Theni police had booked a case of alleged impersonation in the Neet, has been absconding. He had engaged an impersonator, his namesake, to appear in the Neet and counselling, but had joined the college himself. The incident came to light after the officials of the Theni Medical College in the State found that the photograph on the admission card did not match with the original identify of the student.
After being exposed, Udit Surya furnished a discontinuation letter claiming depression and later absconded. Police have formed special teams and one team had visited Chennai, where the parents of the student reside. Police enquired with the faculty at the college, too. A separate enquiry was also conducted with Dean A. K. Rajendran for more than three hours in his chamber, police said.
Sources said police are also searching the homes of his relatives and his father’s friends. The incident of impersonation in the Neet has shocked the country and the question as to how this impersonation took place is being probed. Police suspect that a training centre could have been hand in glove with the exam supervisors. There could several others who could be involved in the racket.
Sources said after Deputy Inspector General of Police, (Dindigul Range), Joshi Nirmal Kumar, sought the transfer of the case, and following its recommendation by DGP J. K. Tripathy, the State government ordered the transfer of the case to the CB-CID police.
