MUMBAI, June 6 -- From next year, students from outside Maharashtra taking the Common Entrance Test (CET) for any course offered by an institution in the state will have to travel to an examination centre in the state. The CET is essential for admission to professional courses such as engineering, pharmacy, law etc. Addressing the media on Thursday, higher and technical education minister, Chandrakant Patil, said this would prevent malpractices in the exam. He noted the results of the five-year law entrance exam, announced on Wednesday. They revealed that four students from a single exam centre in Patna secured 100 percentile. Three of them had taken the exam in the morning session on April 28 and one in the second session. The examination centre will now be investigated by the Crime Investigation Department (CID) for irregularities. Every year, more than a million students take the CET, and more than 25,000 take the exam at centres outside the state. The Mumbai Crime Branch had taken action in March last year against an admission racket that was extracting money from students by tempting them to raise their percentile in the CET exam. The police had arrested three people from Delhi. Against this backdrop, the state higher and technical education department has decided to close examination centres outside the state from next year....