Seat Blocking Scam: ED conducts search on 3 engineering colleges in Bengaluru
The
Enforcement Directorate
(ED) officials on Wednesday conducted a search at 18 locations including the premises of three Bengaluru-based engineering colleges on reports that their management were involved in a seat-blocking scam.
The premises included the offices of accused colleges, trustees and their main associates, office and residence of few private
education consultants
and few
seat blocking agents
.
The raids were prompted by the reports of
Bengaluru City Police
who took up investigation on complaints, last year, and filed a chargesheet recently.
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Seat blocking is a term for people in
private college managements
cornering pricey
government quota seats
by engineering a scam.
It involves
meritorious students
writing the entrance exam at the instance of management or their agents, and surrendering these seats after the completion of the admission rounds by the governments.
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Such seats get added to the management quota and the same are sold for a sum to low-merit students.It is a well-oiled network involving many agents, say officials.
The income tax officials had conducted a series of similar raids in 2019 and 2021 following information that medical colleges had indulged in
illegal sale of seats
and were accepting cash in black though they were all run by either trusts or societies.
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