Bhopal: A special CBI court in Bhopal on Thursday convicted five people and sentenced them to seven years of rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 each in a case of cheating in the Madhya Pradesh Pre Medical Test (MP PMT) examination 2013. .
Special CBI court judge Nitiraj Singh Sisodia booked the four mediators and one solver under sections 419, 420, 467, 468, 471, 120B of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and relevant sections of the Madhya Pradesh Recognized Education (MPRE) Act. Convicted. The four arbiters were identified as Rakesh Kumar, Hardik Patel, Shravan Sonar and Dhananjay Singh and the solver was identified as Mukesh Maurya.
CBI public prosecutor Manuji Upadhyay said, “During the MP PMT exam held in 2013, Mukesh was appearing in place of another person (who was a juvenile). When the matter came to light, a case was registered against the accused. The case was handed over to CBI.”
CBI started investigating the case and presented the charge sheet in the court against all the accused. Upadhyay said that during the hearing of the case, Special Judge Sisodia found all the accused guilty and pronounced the verdict in the case on Thursday.
Special Judge Sisodia sentenced all the accused to seven years’ rigorous imprisonment and also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on each, he said.
