The Bihar Police has arrested five people in the NEET pa꧒per leak case, which takes the total number of people arrested in the case to 18 now in the state. The arrests were made by the Bihar Police’s Economic Offenses Unit.
The development comes after the Centre ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to takeover the probe into the alleged discrepancies in the NEET-UG examination. The agenꩵcy after taking up the case has dispatched its teams to several states for investigation.
A row has erupted after th🤡e paper leak case emerged with pressure mounting on the National Testing Agency (NTA)—the agency responsible for holding the competitive examinations. NTA is receiving flak over the ca🌼ncellation and postponement of several competitive examinations.
The 💟agency has debarred 17 students from examination centers in Bihar after detection of “malpractices”, with a total of 110 students having faced simila🐟r action since the row erupted.
Bihar Police unravels paper leak plot:
The Bihar police arrested five people from Jharkhand's Deoghar late on Sunday evening. The five arrested 💖people are said to residents of Nalanda. The police has said 🌄the members of the Mukhiya gang, accused of orchestrating multiple interstate paper leaks, were the source of the leaked answer sheet.
On Sunday evening, the five accused arrested by Bihar Police have been indentified as Baldev Kumar, Mukesh Kuma♑r, Panku Kumar, Rajeev Kumar and Paramjeet Singh.
Bal🔯dev Kumar is said to be associated with the notorious Sanjeev Kumar alias Lutan Mukhiya gang.
The police said Baldev Kumar allegedly received the solved answer sheet of the NEET-UG🔯 exam in PDF format on his mobile phone a day before the examination on May 5.
Baldev a🐎nd his associates print✃ed the answer sheet to students who gathered at a safe house in Patna's Ram Krishna Nagar on May 4.
The police said Nitish Kumar and ওAmit Anan𒐪d, who were arrested earlier, had brought the students to the safe house.
The NEET-UG question paper was obtained from 💛a private s𝔉chool in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, by the Mukhiya gang, said the police.
The police said they have also recovereඣd partially burnt questꦺion paper at the Patna safe house, which they have matched the paper with the reference question paper provided by the National Testing Agency (NTA), thus confirming the leak's origin.
