The mastermind and his accomplice behind the medical admission fraud case registered at Powai police station were arrested in Bengaluru and brought to Mumbai. They have been identified as Shyam Hariprasad Yadav alias R K Singh, 36, and his associate Anand Changdev Aghav, 32.

The police said one more accused, Abhishek Singh, is yet to be arrested. "They had been running an organised racket by taking lakhs from medical aspirants on the false promise of admission into MBBS colleges in Belgaum, Bengaluru and Kolhapur. To trap the victims, they even got newspaper ads printed," said a senior officer, adding that they had been operating since 2015 from a rented office premises in Powai Plaza. They had fled from there after finding out that parents had started approaching the police.