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Updated: Jul 16, 2015 11:34 IST

Anita Kumari took a big leap towards her long-cherished dream of becoming a doctor when she secured admission in Bhopal’s prestigious Gandhi Medical College three years ago after scoring an impressive 85% in the statewide entrance test.

It was an astonishing performance, particularly because she had answered only 31 of the 200 questions in the pre-medical exam correctly.



But sources said Anita’s lack of knowledge was compensated by the fact that her father was a private secretary to the chief minister at the time and had unfettered access to a booming test-rigging racket in the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (MPPEB), or Vyapam.

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This is just one of the cases related to the multi-crore scandal that has bruised the BJP government’s reputation with powerful politicians, bureaucrats, doctors and businessmen among the suspects.



“It was all done in a very precise manner to give particular marks to particular candidates. The computer records prove that,” a senior official in the board said.



Documents show that Anita had answered 61 out of the 200 questions, and just 31 of them correctly. However, 130 more questions were answered in different ink, apparently by Vyapam officials involved in the scam. Of these, 129 were correct.

Watch: The A to Z of the Vyapam scam

In all these cases, additional correct answers in the range of 123 to 131 were filled in by board officials and the aspiring doctors scored between 75% and 91% marks.

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