NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday arrested the alleged “mastermind”, a B.Tech graduate, and two MBBS students who acted as ‘solvers’ in the NEET-UG 2024 paper leak case.
The arrests were made a day after the arrest of Surabhi Kumari, a first-year MBBS student at Ranchi’s Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS). Kumari was interrogated for two days regarding her involvement in solving the stolen examination paper on the day of the NEET-UG exam, May 5.
The national investigation agency has launched a massive crackdown on those involved in the paper leak, in response to the widespread outrage that followed the incident.The NEET-UG paper was allegedly stolen by Pankaj Kumar, also known as Aditya, a 2017-batch civil engineer from the National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur. Kumar is accused of taking the paper from the NTA trunk in Hazaribagh.
Prior to Kumari’s arrest, four MBBS students from AIIMS Patna, who were also part of the solver module, were taken into custody by the CBI and have been placed under a four-day remand. The solver module was responsible for quickly solving the stolen paper and creating an answer key, which was then provided to NEET aspirants who had paid for their services.
The arrests were made a day after the arrest of Surabhi Kumari, a first-year MBBS student at Ranchi’s Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS). Kumari was interrogated for two days regarding her involvement in solving the stolen examination paper on the day of the NEET-UG exam, May 5.
The national investigation agency has launched a massive crackdown on those involved in the paper leak, in response to the widespread outrage that followed the incident.The NEET-UG paper was allegedly stolen by Pankaj Kumar, also known as Aditya, a 2017-batch civil engineer from the National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur. Kumar is accused of taking the paper from the NTA trunk in Hazaribagh.
Prior to Kumari’s arrest, four MBBS students from AIIMS Patna, who were also part of the solver module, were taken into custody by the CBI and have been placed under a four-day remand. The solver module was responsible for quickly solving the stolen paper and creating an answer key, which was then provided to NEET aspirants who had paid for their services.
