The news spread panic waves among students appearing for the test across the country as they feared the test will be postponed due to the "leak" but AIIMS denied such rumours after verifying the 'papers' allegedly recovered from the lecturer with that of the original set.

The entrance test was conducted as per schedule today at 92 centres across the country for which around 45,000 students appeared for 72 seats, AIIMS spokesperson Y K Gupta told reporters here.

Police detained three persons, including Meena Aggarwal, the lecturer, from her residence in Kavi Nagar area in the early hours following the receipt of an anonymous call that she was involved in the leakage of the question paper.

According to a senior police official, one Ratna Srivastava claimed that the lecturer phoned her daughter and told her that she could get a copy of the question paper if she could give cash between Rs five lakh and Rs ten lakh.

Aggarwal also allegedly offered another aspirant a copy of the paper for the same amount.

After finding that the papers recovered from Aggarwal's residence did not match with that of the original papers, police arrested the lecturer and slapped her with a case of cheating.

Aggarwal will be produced before a Ghaziabad court on Tuesday, ASP Happy Gupta said.

Senior Superintendent of Police Akhil Kumar said that they had sent a team to AIIMS soon after the incident came to light to crosscheck whether the papers recovered from the lecturer matched with the original set of question papers.

"The information relating to paper leak is totally false. The Institute has verified it thoroughly and it has been concluded that the paper does not match with MBBS entrance exam paper of 2009 being held on June 1," AIIMS spokesperson Gupta said.

According to a senior police official, Aggarwal runs a hostel in Kavi Nagar.

AIIMS denies leak of MBBS entrance papers

The AIIMS has denied that there was any leak of question papers of its MBBS entrance examination which is being held across the country on Monday.

"No absolutely, not" AIIMS spokesperson Y K Gupta said when asked about the reports of the alleged leak.

"There is no substance in the allegations of any such leak," he said.

Earlier on Monday, Ghaziabad police had detained three persons along with a set of question papers suspected to be that of AIIMS entrance test.

About eight lakh aspirants are appearing for the exam.

Suspected leak of AIIMS paper; hospital staffer, 2 others held

An AIIMS woman staffer and two girls have been detained after police allegedly recovered a set of question papers suspected to be that of AIIMS entrance test from them, police said on Monday.

Senior Superintendent of Police (Ghaziabad) Akhil Kumar said they have sent a team to AIIMS to cross check whether the set of papers seized from the trio were the same set which is being used for the entrance test being held on Monday.

"We have detained three persons, including one Meena Aggarwal who is an AIIMS staffer, last night. We are interrogating all of them," Kumar said.

However, the entrance test began on Monday morning as scheduled, AIIMS Spokesperson Y K Gupta said.

The girls were seen at Aggarwal's place on Sunday night with their families, he said adding they were supposed to sit for the entrance test on Monday.

Aggarwal is a resident of Ghaziabad and according to the parents of girls, she allegedly demanded Rs 10 lakh for each person, he said.

"It might be a case of cheating. She might be cheating these girls of real papers. She was extracting money from them. But we cannot say with certainty now. Our teams are in AIIMS to cross check," he said. Gupta said the entrance exam is being conducted at nearly 100 centres across the country.

"We are waiting for the documents seized by the Ghaziabad police and any further action will be taken only after ascertaining their genuineness," he said.