HYDERABAD: In a plot straight out of the Bollywood flick Munnabhai MBBS, a post-graduate medical student in Telangana was caught using a digital receiver and transmitter fitted in a waiting car to cheat.
The student from Prathima Institute of Medical Sciences was part of a group of nine taking MD (social and preventive medicine/community medicine) at the Kakatiya medical college centre in Warangal. On December 2, the last day of the exams, where only five students appeared, authorities noticed that an Innova was strategically placed outside the examination centre.
“When security personnel informed me, I asked them to seize and search the vehicle. The driver of the vehicle couldn't give proper answers. After searches, our securitymen found hi-tech equipment like transmitters, receivers and other digital apparatus,” principal Dr Sandhya Sunkaraneni told TOI.
“We immediately searched all the students taking the exams in the hall. One of them was found in possession of a receiver and other digital equipment,” she added.
While authorities hushed up the news, a video of the car and pictures of the equipment surfaced on social media on Monday.
NTR University of Health Science officials, who were conducting the exams, were immediately informed and the student was sent out of the examination hall, she added.
“NTRUHS told us not to file a police complaint as it is an academic matter. The university also suggested not to reveal the name of the student,” she added.
While it’s an offence under the prevention of malpractice and unfair means, KMC didn't file a complaint with Mattewada police of Warangal.
“If the students turned violent or resisted, we would have filed the complaint. NTRUHS have to take the call,” she said.
The vehicle is registered in the name of an industrialist.. But the local police said they would register an FIR, if KMC files a complaint.