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AIIMS examination bungling:
raids at 40 places, 4 detained

New Delhi, March 29
After conducting raids at over 40 places in Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry and here, the CBI today claimed to have cracked the case of alleged bungling in the postgraduate examinations conducted in January by the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences and has detained three or four persons for questioning.

On the request of the Union Health Ministry, the CBI registered a case against some students and doctors on March 27 in the designated court of Chennai, carried out searches at 41 places in Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry and Delhi, agency sources said.

The ministry had received many complaints regarding large-scale bunglings in the examination held on January 8, 2006, after 37 students from Chennai found place on the merit list.

The ministry took up the matter with the CBI, which registered a case on Monday after receiving a notification for the same from the government.

During the searches, the CBI claimed to have recovered documents in which key number to all answer papers was written. The key number is coded so that the identity of the candidate is not known.

The CBI also detained three or four persons for questioning, the sources said, adding that a couple of them were likely to be arrested. — PTI