NEET 2025: Student pays 17k to get tampered marks sheet to impress parents

With an intention to show his parents that he had secured good marks in NEET 2025, an 18-year-old boy from Udupi paid ₹17,000 to get a tampered mark sheet.

In the complaint to Udupi Cyber Economic and Narcotic Crime Station, the father of the boy stated that during the NEET preparation period in April, his son saw videos posted on Youtube channel Editing Mater (@ Editingmaster-d6r) showing how results of NEET, CBSE and JEE can be digitally altered. Two mobile phone numbers were given in the videos asking people to call if they need fake marks card. He claimed the boy turned 18 on May 10.

The boy dialled the numbers through Whatsapp. The receiver identified himself as Vishnu Kumar. The boy transferred a total of ₹17,000 to Vishnu Kumar. On June 16, Vishnu Kumar allegedly sent the boy, through Whatsapp, a digitally forged NEET scorecard and OMR sheet, which showed boy’s rank as AIR 107 with 646 marks.

After the boy downloaded the fake scorecard, the sender deleted it, the father said.

When the boy showed the forged marks card, the elated father, a government officer, was surprised that none of the newspapers carried news about his son’s performance. He sent his son’s marks card to a local newspaper, which published the news.

The father then checked the results on the NEET website and learnt that his son’s actual rank was 17.6 lakh. The boy then confessed to his father about payment of money to get a tampered marks card.

Superintendent of Police Hariram Shankar said the boy confided to the police about how he was forced to pay money to get a fake marks card.

“We registered the compliant of the father for offences punishable under Sections 66(c) and 66 (d) of the Information Technology Act, and under Sections 336 (2), 318(4), 335, 336(3) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. We are search for the perpetrators, who may have cheated other students in the same way,” he said.