TN: Paid Rs 25 Lakh For Admission In Medical College Owned By DMK MP Jagathrakshakan Says Friend Of NEET Aspirant Who Committed Suicide

A video of Fayazdeen, a friend of NEET aspirant Jagadeeswaran, who committed suicide recently, has gone viral on social media.

Speaking to news channels, Fayazdeen said that he was able to secure an MBBS seat at a private medical college by paying Rs 25 lakh and that the cost of the entire course would amount to Rs 1.5 crore.

Further, he said that while his father could afford to pay the course fees, Jagadeeswaran's father Selva Sekar could not afford it.

He added that Jagadeeswaran was a better student than him.

According to a report by Communemag, he said, “I am just pass in NEET. I am telling openly. I was able to get only 160 marks in NEET. Since my father was economically well-to-do, he paid ₹25 lakhs and admitted me in this college… If person who pays money and becomes doctor, what will he do? He will be focused on retrieving the money back instead of doing service to people. If NEET is the only exam that can create good doctors, then are all the doctors who have passed to this date dubakoors (waste in colloquial Tamil)?

“I feel disheartened. Jagadeeswaran who was with me all along, he was not able to pay ₹25 lakhs. In fact, he was better at studies than me. He score better than me both the times… He got 400 marks in this attempt. If he is not able to join, I am not able to understand. What are you going to achieve with this exam? How many students are going to be killed by the rulers in Central Government

“My name is Fayazdeen. I am studying 1st year MBBS at Balaji Medical College. It is a deemed college only. I paid money to join the college. NEET I am just-qualified. I have no shame in saying it. My father got me admitted in this college just because he was able to afford the money. He is someone who studies better than me. I don’t deserve this. I don’t deserve this seat. This MBBS seat I don’t want it. I don’t deserve it. Me and Jagadeeswaran feel we want to serve in the public domain. But like the chicken-egg story, I don’t know if people (doctors) earn money because they put money or whether they put money because they want to earn money.

“I’ve paid money and become a doctor. Now, you, the NMC or the Modi govt is saying NEET. If tomorrow you fall ill, if some unqualified doctor like me treat you and your life is at threat only then will you realize why the hell did we bring NEET exam. ₹25 lakhs is the fees per year. ₹1.5 crores. How will anyone have the thought-process to serve? They will be focused on earning back the money they paid.”

The medical college in which Fayazdeen is studying is owned by Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) MP S Jagathrakshakan. Cheating cases had been registered against the college in 2011 for reportedly collecting Rs 18 lakh as capitation fees and not providing admission to students.

A few days before the suicide of Jagadeeswaran and his father Selva Sekar, Governor RN Ravi had said that a fear psychosis about NEET had been created in the minds of students by the private medical college admissions industry. He said that it was a Rs 1000 crore business.

Jagathrakshakan's family has been under the ED's scanner. In September 2020, it attached property worth Rs 89.19 crore for violations of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA).