Fraudulent admissions at PEC: Two more names crop up in CBI investigation,both from Hisar

The names of two accomplices of the prime accused in the case involving fraudulent admissions at Punjab Engineering College have cropped up during CBI investigations in the case.

The names of two accomplices of the prime accused in the case involving fraudulent admissions at Punjab Engineering College (PEC) have cropped up during CBI investigations in the case. The two Mahinder Bajaj and Kishore Yadav are residents of Hisar and conspired with the mastermind,Dr Nishikant,to get the students admitted in PEC on the basis of forged Nepalese identity cards. The CBI also said the two accomplices have links with the NITK,Surathkal,which made it easy for them to arrange the admissions as they knew the procedure well.

Pleading before the court to grant another seven days of custody of Nishikant,the CBI said they need to arrest Bajaj and Yadav. It said the custody of Nishikant is required as he needs to identify the two for their arrest. The court granted four-day custody of Nishikant.

The investigating agency further said that Bajaj works as a dental surgeon in Hisar and is an old friend of Nishikant. Out of the 11 students arrested by the CBI,three were introduced to Nishikant by Bajaj and the money they took from the students was equally shared by them. Bajaj is married and has a daughter and three sons. He also moved an anticipatory bail plea in CBI Court today,which was rejected.

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In his bail application,Bajaj pleaded innocence and said he has no knowledge of the case.

The CBI also said it needs to go to Delhi and Hisar to ascertain the places from where the accused purchased the documents used in forging the certificates. The investigating officials also said they also need to recover the compute the IP address of which has been traced which was used to fill the online forms under the DASA scheme by the accused.

The defence counsel,while opposing the demand for police custody,said the presence of the accused is not required to arrest the accomplices. He also said there is no record that he called the students. Its a case of documents,his presence is not needed at all, said the defence counsel.

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