As a fallout of the cheating racket unearthed by the CBI, the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) here has cancelled its MD/MS entrance examination held here last week.

“The examination has been cancelled. Now, another date for holding the entrance test for the MD (doctor of medicine) /MS (master of surgery) will be announced later,” PGIMER’s spokesperson, Manju Wadwalkar said here today.

She said in the absence of PGIMER Director Dr Y. K. Chawla, a meeting was chaired by the institute’s acting director, Dr Vinay Sakhuja and attended by senior functionaries, after which the decision to cancel the examination was taken.

The decision will affect 7,300 candidates, who appeared for the 78 post-graduate seats in various departments of PGIMER in 11 different examination centres that were set up in this city.

PGIMER sources said the new MD/MS entrance examination was likely to be held in December this year.

They said the decision to cancel the entrance examination was taken keeping in mind that it was not known how many candidates were beneficiaries in the cheating, and therefore, it would be in the interest of all genuine candidates, to take such a step.

Earlier, the institute had withheld for an indefinite period the result of the 7,300 candidates who had appeared for its MD/MS entrance examination on Saturday after it came to the fore during CBI investigations that seven girls nabbed by the investigating agency on the same day were appearing merely to leak the question paper thereby acting as facilitators for some other candidates.

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