Three MBBS graduates have been arrested after one of them wrote the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination Screening (FMGES) Test here Sunday in place of another, police said Wednesday.

Rajesh Kumar Gupta alias Rahul, 31, was arrested from Delhi’s Cantonment area where the FMGES exam was organised at a Kendriya Vidalaya March 31.

FMGES is a mandatory test in India for practicing as a doctor.

Gupta, who got his MBBS degree from Gaya University in Bihar, took the Sunday exam in place of the real candidate, Nalakath Shuhaib Kader, 31.

Kader and the mastermind of the plot, Gorakhnath Giri, 33, were arrested from New Delhi railway station Monday as they were about to leave the city.

Gupta told investigators that he came in contact with Giri, who persuaded him to appear in place of another student for clearing the FMGES exam.

“Giri had promised him Rs.2.5 lakh for this,” Additional Commissioner of Police Anil Kumar Ojha said.

Giri, an MBBS from a government medical college in Pune in 2007, told police that he met Kader who wanted to pass the FMGES exam.

“Giri initially demanded Rs.7 lakh plus expenses from Kader to arrange for someone to appear on his behalf in the test,” said the officer.

Kader had passed MBBS from Tajakistan in 2008 but was trying to clear FMGES test for the last four years.