Mumbai: In a major crackdown, the Mumbai Crime Branch has exposed a gang involved in the MBA-CET 2025-26 admission scam. The gang was allegedly offering students illegal admission and score enhancement services for up to ₹20 lakh. Four accused were arrested from Delhi—identified as Ambreesh Kumar Singh, Aditya Raj, Ketan Yadav, and Abhishek Srivastava. All the accused are highly educated, with Aditya and Ketan being third-year B.Tech students, while Ambreesh owns an online firm, and Abhishek holds a B.Sc in Biology.
According to DCP Datta Nalawade of the Crime Branch, the four accused were arrested on Friday night and brought to Mumbai, where they were produced before the court on Saturday. The court remanded them to police custody. The gang allegedly contacted students via WhatsApp calls and offered guaranteed admissions in reputed institutes by tampering with their scores.
The scam came to light after Abhishek Joshi, the Project Coordinator at Eduspark International Pvt. Ltd., filed an FIR at Azad Maidan Police Station on March 18. Joshi’s company conducts exams for Maharashtra’s Common Entrance Test (CET).
In his complaint, Joshi reported that the gang was misleading students by offering to increase their exam scores illegally. The scammers demanded lakhs of rupees from the candidates, claiming they could manipulate the system to guarantee higher scores and admissions.
Following the complaint, the Crime Branch initiated an investigation and traced the mobile numbers used by the scammers. The location was tracked to Mehrauli, Delhi. A special team was dispatched to Delhi, leading to the arrest of all four accused.
The gang operated through the website collegeinside.org, which claimed to offer exam-related guidance to students. The accused allegedly collaborated with a person named Rajbir, who provided them with registered candidates’ data. Using this data, the gang contacted students and instructed them to choose exam centers in remote locations such as Bhandara, Gondia, Yavatmal, and Jalna.
At these centers, the scammers planned to use UltraViewer software to gain remote access to the exam computers, allowing them to manipulate the scores. During the raid, the police seized five Apple mobile phones, a MacBook, Bluetooth headphones, and a pen drive containing evidence of the scam.
During interrogation, the accused revealed that they had previously carried out a similar scam at a prestigious technical university in Tamil Nadu. The Crime Branch suspects the gang’s involvement in multiple exam scams across different states, including Maharashtra, Gujarat, Bihar, and Rajasthan. The investigation is ongoing.
