Bangalore: Alert Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) deputed at the Bengaluru International Airport (BIA) helped the police bust a professional courses seat-blocking racket here on Tuesday and in this connection, 8 medical students were arrested as they were trying to flee to their respective States. All have been charged with impersonation in relation to the recent Consortium of Medical Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka (COMEDK) undergraduate entrance test (UGET) held here.
The students, from Bihar and Jharkhand studying medicine in colleges across the country, were nabbed when CISF personnel casually questioned three of them when they were waiting at the airport. When the trio did not give convincing replies, the CISF personnel asked them to produce their IDs. The details on the ID cards did not match their claims on age and name. While subjected to detailed questioning, the students spilled the beans, leading to five more arrests. Enquiries found that the eight had also booked their flight tickets by producing fake IDs, the police said.
16/05/13 The Hindu
