It was 2009 when my friend Abhishek secured 42nd rank in A.I.P.M.T. medical entrance. I visited his home to congratulate him on his success. It was then when a thought came to our mind, it was to sell the rank to a coaching institute. It was just a thought and such thoughts are bound to come up and also get washed away soon when two friends meet. But then, the very next day, Abhishek visited my place and re-ignited that thought. I also encouraged it and we soon decided to pay a visit to some premium coaching institutes in our native place. I had a fractured hand at that time, so I asked Abhishek to drive my bike and then we sailed off. We visited 3 or 4 coaching centres but everywhere our offer was rejected. We then decided to head back to our home, empty handed. In our way back to home, there was this coaching by S. Ahmad, so we decided to pay a final visit to this coaching. We went to the coaching centre and demanded a meeting to be fixed with S. Ahmad, the owner of the coaching insti. We were asked to wait for about half an hour until S. Ahmad was free from taking a class. During this time we decided what amount to ask for and how to initiate the conversation. We agreed at 10,000 INR among ourselves. We were finally called in by S. Ahmad and we went in with a little fear of what could be Ahmad's reaction to our proposal. He asked us to sit and then I initiated the conversation by introducing him to Abhishek and telling him about his rank in A.I.P.M.T. and then I tabled my proposal to sell the rank in an extremely polite manner.He first checked the rank online and then asked for our demand. I thought for a while and said 20.000 INR, To this Abhishek hit me on my leg as the amount which I said was double the amount we decided. But then we were shocked to hear Ahmad's reply. He said, he will give 25,000, paused a little and said, he will give 50,000, paused again and said 50,000 + mobile, paused again and said 1 lack + mobile + laptop and then he started signing a post dated cheque of 1 lack INR. We were in complete shock. After a little pause I asked, what will we have to do. He then explained that if Abhishek's rank is 42nd all India then it must be under 10 in U.P. To this Abhishek replied that he is expecting 175/200 marks and couldn't guess the rank. S. Ahmad said that 175 would be enough for the rank to be under 10 as the last year's topper scored 178 marks. So the date that was mentioned in the PDC was the date of result declaration of U.P P.M.T. He then explained that in U.P, there is more craze for U.P. P.M.T. than A.I.P.M.T. He then directed us to a room where there were photos of top rankers in medical entrance exams conducted in different years and told us that these all were bought by him. He finally noted down my contact number and told me that he will give me a call on U.P P.M.T result declaration day.
Finally the day of the result declaration of UP PMT arrived, S. Ahmad gave me a call and the moment I told him that Abhishek has secured 144th rank, he disconnected the call. We didn't give up, rather we decided to sell the rank somewhere else. So we went to Kishore Tripathi, the chemistry teacher. We bargained with him and settled at 10,000 rupees. He chalked out a meeting with us the very next day. We decided to look poor so that he might give us more money. The following day we met him at his coaching centre from where he took us to radio city office. We met RJ Supriya there. She looked awesome in her sleeveless top. She asked us to remove our shoes outside the office and then offered us espresso coffee. She then took us to the recording room. It was again awesome. The whole of Lucknow was visible from the transparent glasses of that room. The view was really awesome. Supriya then asked few questions from Abhishek about his preparation and how Kishore Tripathi was helpful. He said all lies. She then bid us good bye & we were off the radio city office. Kishore Tripathi then gave us 5000 and promised to give the rest later. Then some how Kishore Tripathi came to know about Abhishek being a student of Aakash Institute so he cancelled our next installment. We earned 5000 rupees by selling the rank.
Today, 5 years later whenever we think of this incident, we laugh at it. There are many more such incidents, I will post them in near future.
Finally the day of the result declaration of UP PMT arrived, S. Ahmad gave me a call and the moment I told him that Abhishek has secured 144th rank, he disconnected the call. We didn't give up, rather we decided to sell the rank somewhere else. So we went to Kishore Tripathi, the chemistry teacher. We bargained with him and settled at 10,000 rupees. He chalked out a meeting with us the very next day. We decided to look poor so that he might give us more money. The following day we met him at his coaching centre from where he took us to radio city office. We met RJ Supriya there. She looked awesome in her sleeveless top. She asked us to remove our shoes outside the office and then offered us espresso coffee. She then took us to the recording room. It was again awesome. The whole of Lucknow was visible from the transparent glasses of that room. The view was really awesome. Supriya then asked few questions from Abhishek about his preparation and how Kishore Tripathi was helpful. He said all lies. She then bid us good bye & we were off the radio city office. Kishore Tripathi then gave us 5000 and promised to give the rest later. Then some how Kishore Tripathi came to know about Abhishek being a student of Aakash Institute so he cancelled our next installment. We earned 5000 rupees by selling the rank.
Today, 5 years later whenever we think of this incident, we laugh at it. There are many more such incidents, I will post them in near future.
nice one.. waiting for more :D
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