Jaipur institute on CBI radar

The probe has revealed that as many as 19 students from remote districts in Punjab and Haryana secured admission in MNIT,Jaipur,by submitting forged Nepalese identity cards. They availed of the Direct Admission of Students Abroad (DASA) scheme and never appeared for the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) mandatory for admission of foreign students under the scheme,the CBI said.

The facts were revealed during the sustained questioning of Mahinder Bajaj,arrested accomplice of Nishikant. Bajaj was sent to judicial custody today by the court. Sources in the CBI said they have transmitted all the relevant details to their counterparts in Jaipur.

Besides,the CBI also said that Mahinder Bajaj is a dental technician based in Hisar and came in contact with Nishikant. They formed an association and Bajaj brought some of his clients to Nishikant who were eager to gain admission in engineering institutes by hook or crook. The students paid huge amounts for the fraudulent admissions and the money was shared by Nishikant,Mahinder Bajaj and Kishore Yadav (absconding accused).

“PEC was never the sole institute where students took admissions by fraudulent means under the DASA scheme. A total of 31 institutes across the country have been under our scanner and we had written to NIT Surathkal,Karnataka,which is the authority for DASA,to verify the antecedents of students admitted under this scheme. The name of the institute in Jaipur has cropped up,” said DIG Mahesh Aggarwal of the CBI.

On September 8,the CBI had registered a case of forgery against 11 students of PEC who took admission on the basis of forged Nepalese identity cards under a scheme meant for enrolling foreign students and NRIs.

Incidentally,it has been learnt that Bajaj’s daughter also took admission in an engineering institute on the basis of forged Nepalese identity documents. His family,however,said Bajaj was unaware of the conspiracy and was taken in by the false promises of Nishikant.