The Chennai city police have been interrogating a female medical aspirant and her father under the grounds of forging the results and scorecard of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET). The shocking incident has come to light after the MBBS aspirant had claimed a medical seat using a forged mark sheet. 

According to reports, the aspirant had only scored 27 marks in the NEET UG 2020 and she was in a situation that she won't be getting an MBBS sheet following which, she had decided to forge her NEET mark sheet to secure a medical seat. Her father is a dentist from Ramanathapuram district and the medical aspirant had gone to the counseling center in Chennai with her father. 

She reached the center and she claimed that she had scored 610 marks in NEET and informed the authorities that she hadn't received any call for counseling. In the counseling center, she also had submitted a rank list with the photo and roll number of herself that she had scored 610 marks. 

Following her claim, the authorities had started verifying her certificate and mark sheet and upon verification, the authorities had found that she had scored very low marks in the national entrance test and that was the reason why she wasn't offered a call for medical counseling. 

The authorities had launched a probe into the incident which further unfolded the irregularities committed by the aspirant with the view of securing a medical seat. According to reports, the probe had revealed that the aspirant had forged her mark sheet to reflect higher marks in NEET. It also revealed that the original candidate whom the aspirant used and forged her identity had already secured a medical seat. 

Following the revelation, the authorities had lodged an official complaint in Periampet police station against the aspirant and her father for forging the mark sheet and the provisional rank list. Following the complaint, the police had filed a case against the daughter and father under sections 419 - punishment for cheating by personation, 420- cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property, 464- making a false document, 465 - forgery, 468-forgery for the purpose of cheating, and 471 - using as genuine a forged document of the Indian Penal Code. 

The reports say that a special team has been formed to probe into the matter and the team has gone to Ramanathapuram for further investigations.  The incident has shocked the state, which had witnessed the dreadful episodes of NEET impersonation last year. The NEET impersonation had brought the state under fire as it has exhumed unprecedented scam in the national entrance exam. In 2019, at least 19 aspirants were suspected to have hired impersonators to take the entrance exam and the probe went to the CB-CID which later arrested at least four students and two others in connection with the case.