chennai another first year medical student has been arrested and removed from rolls of srm medical university after the cbcid found that his fingerprints did not match with that of the person who wrote neet 2019 from a centre in north india police said the krishnagiribased student whose name has been withheld following orders of the madras high court wrote the entrance exam from a centre in tamil nadu he had appointed an impersonator to write the same exam in his name from another state when police detected a fingerprint mismatch they asked the national testing agency nta which conducts the exam for a clearer copy of his fingerprint the agency took fingerprints of the student twice in the examination hall we wanted to be sure before we accuse the student of impersonation the copy from the agency came about a fortnight ago when we were sure of the mismatch we apprehended him and informed srm said a senior police officer investigating the case he was later remanded in judicial custodywe have removed him from the rolls temporarily a letter has been sent to the mci we are awaiting further information from police said a senior administrator of the college so far the cbcid has arrested at least 17 people including students parents and agents in connection with the impersonation scam in 2019 medical admissions the modus operandi was similar in almost all cases students and their parents paid up to 20 lakh to impersonators to write the exam in their name from another centre they used the impersonators score to get admission in government and private medical colleges through the centralised or state counselling weeks after the crime was busted the state government took fingerprints of all first year students from government selffinancing colleges and deemed universities they also sent the same to cbcid for forensic tests along with a copy of the fingerprints taken by the nta the cbcid also obtained a list of tn students whose names and details matched with those who wrote the same exam in another centre