Akshaya Centre staffer held on charge of forging NEET hall ticket
The Pathanamthitta police on Monday arrested Greeshma, employee of an Akshaya Centre in Neyyattinkara, on charges of forging a NEET examination hall ticket.
The arrest followed the detention of a 20-year-old student from Parassala in Thiruvananthapuram who had attempted to write the NEET exam at the Government Higher Secondary School, Thycavu, Pathanamthitta, using a fake admit card. The incident came to light on Sunday when the student, after initially arriving at Mar Thoma HSS in Pathanamthitta, later approached the Thycavu school. Suspecting a clerical error, officials temporarily allowed him to start taking the exam. However, a detailed verification revealed that the hall ticket was forged and based on this finding, the student was stopped from writing the exam.
According to the police, the admit card was forged using the details of another student. Following a complaint by NEET observer S.K. Mahesh, the police launched an investigation. During interrogation, it came to light that the student's mother had tasked Greeshma with applying for the test. As she failed to do so, Greeshma later modified another student's admit card and sent it via WhatsApp.
During interrogation, Greeshma confessed to the crime. The police have seized the computer hard disk from the Akshaya Centre for forensic analysis.
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