Medical entrance exam leak: 7 accused sent to JC

New Delhi, January 18: Seven persons, including three doctors, arrested for their alleged role in the recent leak of the post graduate medical entrance exam papers of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), were today remanded to two-weeks of judicial custody by a Delhi court.

Metropolitan Magistrate Sudesh Kumar sent the accused to judicial custody till January 31 after the Crime Branch of Delhi Police submitted they were not required for further custodial interrogation.

“Accused are remanded to 14 days of judicial custody,” the court said.

The accused were produced before the court after the expiry of their police custody remand.

The police had said accused Mohit Chaudhary, a second year MBBS student of an Ujjain medical college, was the “kingpin” of the racket and he had conspired with other accused Amit, Shahi Balender Bakshi and Vimal Dangi, doctors who had allegedly appeared in the entrance test.

–PTI