Munnabhai redux: UP STF nabs two medical students, claims to have busted copying racket

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Press Trust of India Lucknow
Last Updated : Mar 21 2018 | 7:15 PM IST

The Special Task Force (STF) ofthe Uttar Pradesh Police claimed to have busted a gang involved in facilitating copying during examinations in the Meerut-based Chaudhary Charan Singh University with the arrest of two medical students.

Acting on a tip off, the STF arrested two medical students of Muzaffarnagar Medical College yesterday along with answer sheets, the STF said.

Those arrested were second year students, the STF officials said.

The arrested duo is learnt to have told the police they met the father of their classmate on March 15, who promised them he will give them a blank answer sheet on which they can get answers written by experts and submit it in two days, STF officials claimed.

These answer-sheets were to be exchanged with the ones used during the actual examinations for a sum, STF officials said.

The arrested duo had come to submit their written answer books, the STF officials added.

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First Published: Mar 21 2018 | 7:15 PM IST

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