CBI busts NEET-UG paper leak racket, and the first arrests in Bihar are a major update in the case. Two persons from Patna, namely, Manish Kumar and Ashutosh, involved in this scam, have been taken into custody by this agency.
CBI sources said Manish Kumar was allegedly involved in the transportation of students, including at a school wherein at least two dozen of students were provided with the leaked paper to memorize it. Some records indicate that the first education center of Ashutosh was perhaps his home, where he offered to stay for students.
The two men were issued a summons for questioning on Thursday and later picked and arrested.
The NEET paper leak case, the CBI has lodged as many as six FIRs so far with the first FIR having been registered within a day of when the Ministry of Education had transferred the case to the CBI.
Before the CBI arrests, some people had been arrested by the police in Bihar, Maharashtra, and Delhi, and one of the aspirants alleged that he had solved the question paper because he had obtained it early.
It has attained a high profile with the demonstrations and the legal cases it has raised, starting from the lower courts up to the Supreme Court, and it is a very big political concern. President Droupadi Murmu strongly indicated that the government would ensure that the case investigation was fair and that the perpetrators were punished as needed.
