According to police, the students had allegedly got their marks enhanced during revaluation. Those arrested are Chava Anil Choudhary, Amit Pandit, Anurag Gupta, Rajesh Kamble and Sonali Bhusari. Altogether 29 people have been arrested in the case.

The accused were later produced before a court. Bhusari and Gupta were remanded to magisterial custody while the rest were given police custody.Pandit, a first-year MBBS student of Lata Mangeshkar Medical College, had allegedly swapped his answer-sheets in the examinations while Choudhary was a beneficiary of the revaluation. Kamble was a temporary employee of the varsity and allegedly helped students seek revaluation, police added.

Bhusari was arrested by police on charges of forgery andcheating. A student of the local Amritbai Daga College, she allegedly got her marks manipulated during revaluation of her B Tech (Home Science) paper in 1997.

Police said Chava Anil Choudhary, a resident of Hyderabad, was a student at a student of the Ramtek-based Kavi Kulguru Institute of Technology, a private engineering college started by a relative of former prime minister P V Narasimha Rao.

Anil's father Chava Kotgeli is Additional Superintendent of Police at Mahboobnagar in Andhara Pradesh. Anil had obtained a fake BE (Electronics) degree in 1994 and submitted it to the United States Consulate at Chennai for obtaining employment. Smelling a rat, the Consulate referred the degree to the Nagpur University for verification. Wards of some top functionaries of the university University engineer Vithal Wadandra, Arts faculty Dean Anil Kumar Dey and Education faculty Dean R S Dagarare allegedly involved in fraudulently getting their marks increased. Dey and Dagar have resigned following their sons'arrests. Dey, the principal of a private college, was also member of the university's management council. He headed the committee inquiring into the scam.

The scandal surfaced when the Anti-Corruption Bureau trapped the university's assistant registrar and kingpin Yadav Kohachade trying to bribe a police officer with Rs 7 lakh. Since then, Acting Registrar and Controller of Examinations Prakash Mistry and Engineering faculty Dean Hemand Thakre have been arrested. One of the assistant registrars, fearing arrest, committed suicide.