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₹20–30 lakh, original mark sheets and blank signed cheques: the racket Delhi Police broke up days before NEET 2026
Between 2 and 4 May 2026, the Delhi Police Crime Branch rescued 18 students — some of them minors — from a hotel in Mahipalpur and a flat in Ghaziabad, and arrested four people who, police said, had promised NEET aspirants a guaranteed MBBS admission for ₹20–30 lakh each.
According to The Tribune's report, the scheme combined several frauds. Families paid token amounts up front and handed over original academic documents and blank signed cheques — collateral that made backing out expensive. Students were then taken to undisclosed locations "to receive important exam material". A doctor among the accused had prepared 149 pages of fabricated question-and-answer material, assembled from previous years' papers, which was passed off as leaked content. The four roles police described were a mastermind, the doctor who produced the material, a logistics organiser and a broker who recruited victims.
The operation was triggered by intelligence from Surat Police and technical surveillance. A trap near a Ghaziabad hospital led to three students being rescued and the alleged mastermind arrested; a raid on a flat in Ghaziabad found 15 more. Some of the rescued students were counselled and allowed to sit their NEET paper on 3 May. The accused are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
Why families fall for it: the pitch is aimed at people who have already decided that their child must become a doctor and fear the NEET result. "Guaranteed" is the word that should end the conversation — no one can guarantee a seat allotted by a computerised counselling process — but it is precisely the word anxious parents want to hear.
The collateral is the part to remember. Original mark sheets and signed blank cheques are never required for any legitimate admission, in India or abroad. Anyone who asks for them is buying leverage over you, not processing an application.
Regulators keep repeating the same line. On 1 May 2026, Hyderabad City Police Commissioner V.C. Sajjanar warned that agents were selling "management" and "NRI quota" seats in India and in countries including the Philippines, Kazakhstan, China, Georgia, Armenia and the Caribbean using fabricated allotment letters — and that every medical admission in India runs only through centralised counselling under the NMC.
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This is a news-sourced case summary written by the TrustMBBS team, not a first-person account; see the sources above. They reflect one person's experience and are not a verdict on any institution. Report your own: Report a scam or tell your story.