Guwahati: Ten persons were on Sunday arrested for allegedly impersonating as candidates appearing for the Assam Medical College Entrance examinations and writing answer scripts for them, the police said. The police picked them up acting on a tip-off that a group of people, mostly students from Bihar, have arrived in the state to write the entrance examination for some candidates appearing in the examination after taking money.
Assam Health and Education Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma urged the police to take necessary action in this regard following which one person was arrested from a hotel in Guwahati on Saturday night and on the basis of information provided by him, nine others were rounded up from various examination centres.
The police arrested four persons each from Guwahati and Silchar and one from Bongaigaon. Among the fake candidates, two were arrested from Dispur College and one each from Pragjyotish and Lalit Chandra Bharali in Guwahati while four others were arrested from JC College in Silchar and one Birjhara College in Bongaigaon.
The police claimed that the candidates for whom these persons were appearing had already been given an advance amount and on getting selected they would have been paid the remaining amount....
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07:12 PM, May 19, 2013
Singapore: A 22-year-old Indian-origin student has been sentenced to 22 months in jail by a Singapore court for a series of cheating and forgery cases. Suraj Kumar Sarabjeet admitted to 10 counts of cheating and forgery in a district court in this city-state on Friday, the Straits Times reported. A polytechnic student, Sarabjeet posed as Captain Vincent Toh from the Singapore Armed Forces in January 2012 and ordered laptops worth...
07:20 PM, May 04, 2013
Jammu: A girl allegedly committed suicide in Rajouri district after she was caught cheating during her BA first year examination at Degree College Thanamandi, police said. Rubina (19) committed suicide by consuming poison on Tuesday after a case of unfair means was registered against her, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Rajouri, Mubassir Latifi, said on Wednesday. The girl was reportedly caught copying during the English paper of her BA examination...
02:33 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Saharanpur: BJP president Rajnath Singh on Friday hit out the SP and BSP for extending support to the UPA government saying the two political parties have cheated the people by backing Congress and its allies at the Centre. "Despite their differences with the Congress, both SP and BSP have cheated people by supporting the UPA government," he said in public rally in Saharanpur. "The UPA government does not have the...
02:55 AM, Apr 13, 2013
Chandigarh: A gang helping class 10 and 12 students in Haryana's Rohtak district to cheat in examinations has been busted and five people, including the superintendent of an examination centre, have been arrested, police said on Saturday. "The Haryana Police has busted a gang which used to help students use unfair means during examinations for Class 10 and 12 of National Open School being held at a school in a...
01:45 AM, Apr 07, 2013
In the largest cheating scandals to hit the US public education system, 35 Atlanta public schools educators and administrators have been indicted on charges of large-scale racketeering and corruption. ...
08:00 PM, Mar 31, 2013
Nearly 1,600 students, caught cheating in Bihar's Class 10 boards, were expelled from the exams and over 100 parents who helped them use unfair means were arrested, an official said on Monday. ...
03:15 AM, Mar 19, 2013
More than 200 school students, caught cheating in the Class 10 board exam, were expelled and nearly 100 parents, who helped them use unfair means, were arrested in Bihar on Wednesday. ...
05:08 AM, Mar 14, 2013
The Bhopal Police has arrested a gang involved in helping candidates clear the high-level state civil services examinations. ...
08:30 AM, Mar 07, 2013
A man was on Sunday arrested for allegedly beating his wife with an air-gun, causing an injury to her ear lobe, police said. ...
03:21 AM, Feb 18, 2013
An Indian-origin woman, accused of lying extensively about her age and educational qualifications to get employment as a lawyer in New York and England, has been convicted here of forgery and conspiracy and faces upto seven years in prison. London resident Soma Sengupta, 52, was found guilty following a six-week bench trial in New York State Supreme Court of all charges in the indictment including criminal possession of a forged...
12:15 PM, Feb 16, 2013
A man hunt has been launched for two men who allegedly duped the all women Shatabdi Mahila Sahakari Bank here to a tune of Rs 1.30 crore on the pretext of taking loans for buying 27 cars, police said on February 5. ...
12:55 PM, Feb 05, 2013
Harvard University said on Friday it issued academic sanctions against approximately 60 students who were forced to withdraw from school for a period of time in a cheating scandal that involved the final exam in a class on Congress, drawing criticism from a high-profile alumnus. The school implicated as many as 125 students in the scandal when officials first addressed the issue in 2012. ...
05:33 PM, Feb 02, 2013
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11:01 AM, Jan 29, 2013
Robert Pattinson's friends think he has made the right choice in ending his relationship with Kristen Stewart. ...
03:34 PM, Jan 23, 2013
One of the most intriguing aspects of Lance Armstrong's 'confession' (apart from his having to look up the dictionary to see what 'cheat' means) is ...
02:00 PM, Jan 21, 2013
Former Kingfisher Airlines pilots have sent a legal notice to the management seeking compensation for mental harassment and salary dues, according to sources. The management has been given a period of 21 days to comply with the notice. ...
11:43 AM, Jan 21, 2013
In a bid to stop cheating, Britain is set to ban immigrants from taking driving tests in Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Bengali, Kashmiri, Tamil, Urdu and 12 other foreign languages under new plans to be unveiled next month. ...
10:41 PM, Jan 20, 2013
False promise of marriage to a woman has landed a man behind bars in Odisha's Kandhamal district, police said in Odisha on Saturday. Pratap Bisoi of Kelapada village was arrested on Friday on charge of betraying the woman, who is now pregnant, sub-divisional police officer (SDPO), Phulbani, Govind Sethi said. ...
01:45 PM, Jan 19, 2013
Facebook may lower one's self-control and tempt him or her into excessive eating or spending, says a new consumer study. ...
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