Lagatar24 Desk
Lucknow, Mar 1: Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (UPSTF) probing into the Ayush admission scam arrested the owner of a private medical college and hospital in Mirzapur district in the wee hours of Wednesday.
The owner, Ritu Garg, is accused of facilitating the admission of undeserving candidates in connivance with the former Ayurveda director, counselling in charge. They have been already arrested and booked for forging the NEET merit.
STF has already filed a charge sheet against former Ayurveda director SN Singh, counselling in-charge Umakant Yadav, former senior assistant director Ayurveda Rajesh Singh, former junior assistant in Ayurveda Directorate Kailash Chandra Bhaskar. Director Uptron Powertronics Kuldeep Verma, AGM Uptron Powertronics Limited Prabodh Singh, directors of private companies Gaurav Gupta, Harswardhan Tiwari, Saurabh Maurya, Indradev Mishra, Rupesh Ranjan Pandey, Vijay Yadav, along with managers of private firms Alok Trivedi, Dharmendra and Vijay, in a Lucknow court last week.
The STF said it surfaced during the probe that accused SN Singh in connivance with two other officials and the organizing private firm, Soft Solution Private Limited, reportedly fiddled with the data they obtained from the directorate which led to the admission of undeserving candidates.
The probe revealed that the natural order of merit was not followed in many cases. In some cases, the selected students had not even appeared for the NEET either.
