The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) has arrested three people from Noida who were running a gang to cheat in NEET UG and other competitive exams. The accused were caught from Sector 3, under Phase-1 police station in Gautam Buddha Nagar district.

The three arrested men have been identified as Vikram Kumar Shah, Dharampal Singh, and Aniket Kumar. A First Information Report (FIR No. 182/2025) has been registered against them at Phase-1 police station. They are charged under sections 318, 319, 336, 337, 338, 340, and 61(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). Legal action is ongoing.

The STF found many important items with them, including six calling phones, four personal phones, two encrypted Aadhaar cards, a candidate data sheet, a PAN card, a credit card, a voter ID, a passport, a cheque book, an Apple MacBook, and a Toyota Fortuner SUV.

Gang promised NEET paper leaks and charged ₹5 lakh per student

According to the STF, they received a tip-off on May 3 that a gang was helping NEET UG candidates cheat. The STF Noida unit, under Additional SP Raj Kumar Mishra and Deputy SP Navendu Kumar, raided the gang’s office in Sector 3.

The tip said the gang were contacting families of students and offering to leak the NEET UG exam paper in return for huge amounts of money. The STF caught the accused red-handed during the raid.

During questioning, 30-year-old Vikram Kumar Shah told police that he is originally from Darbhanga, Bihar. In 2011, he went to Vinayaka Mission University in Chennai for a biotechnology degree. There, he met Aniket Kumar. The two started arranging admissions for students and charged 30% commission.

Later, Shah moved to Delhi, where he met Dharampal Singh. They started a company called "Admission View" and collected information on MBBS aspirants. They contacted students’ families and charged ₹5 lakh by promising guaranteed admission.

OMR sheets were replaced with correct answers

The gang told students to only answer the questions they knew on the OMR sheet and leave the rest blank. They promised to later replace the OMR sheets with correctly filled ones. If the student got admission, the gang kept the money. If not, they delayed refunds or disappeared.

After getting complaints, the gang changed its name in 2023 and started a new company, "SHREYANVI EDU OPC PVT LTD", again in Noida Sector 3. They restarted the cheating operation before NEET UG 2025.

The STF said that investigations are still going on to find out how many students were cheated and if more people are involved.    

    

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