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New Delhi: A Delhi Technological University (DTU) graduate allegedly posed as a university employee and took prospective students and their parents around the campus to build trust while his associates promised admissions to reputed colleges and collected money, police said. He would sometimes give them a tour of the university, which helped build the parents’ confidence,” a police officer said. When students failed to secure admission to their preferred institutions, families were allegedly told that an alternative seat had already been arranged in a private college. The accused would then get commissions from the management-quota admissions,” the officer said.
The alleged mastermind, Yashraj Bajpai, a former Electronics and Communication Engineering student of DTU, is accused of posing as a university staff member to convince families he had the necessary influence to facilitate admissions. Bajpai, who was himself a DTU student, would meet them at the campus and tell them that he worked there. Police alleged that after collecting money, the accused arranged management-quota admissions in private colleges using the students’ details. “The students would feel that otherwise they would lose an entire year, so they would agree to take admission in the private college.