NET-UG Paper leak case: 2 accused sent to 3-day CBI remand

The CBI has made its first arrests in the NEET-UG paper leak case, taking into custody two persons from Patna, officials said Thursday. Manish Kumar and Ashutosh Kumar allegedly provided safe premises to the aspirants before the examination where they were given leaked papers and answer keys, the officials said. Later, a special CBI court in Patna has sent two accused in the NEET question paper leak case - Chintu Kumar and Mukesh Kumar - to CBI remand for three days.Chintu Kumar, who is associated with the Sanjeev Kumar alias Lutan Mukhiya gang, allegedly received the solved answer sheet of the NEET-UG in PDF format on his mobile phone a day before the exam.Reportedly, Mukesh is also associated with the gang.
According to preliminary investigations, Kumar and his associates printed and distributed the solved answer sheet to students gathered at a safe house in Ram Krishna Nagar in Patna on May 4 for memorisation. It was also found that the leaked NEET-UG question paper was obtained from a private school in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, by the Mukhiya gang.
Meanwhile, a special team of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday questioned a principal of the Oasis school in Jharkhand's Hazaribagh, who was the district coordinator of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test-Undergraduate (NEET UG-2024) examination, amid its probe into the exam's alleged irregularities. Along with the principal, a few other staff members of the school were also quizzed at the CCL guest house at Charhi, a town in the Hazaribagh district.The Oasis school principal, Dr Ehsanul Haque, has denied any tampering with question papers in Hazaribag and termed the allegations against him as “baseless”.The CBI is investigating six cases related to the NEET paper leak. Of the six cases, one each is from Bihar, Gujarat, and Maharashtra, while three are from Rajasthan.