In a recent development that rocked the medical education community, the CBI has detained four doctors from AIIMS Patna—Karan Jain, Kumar Shanu, Rahul Anand, and Chandan Singh—on charges of being complicit in solving leaked NEET exam papers. Currently, these individuals are MBBS students at AIIMS. The accused Pankaj reportedly provided them with the papers to solve.
MBBS third-year students Chandan Singh from Siwan, Kumar Shanu from Patna, Rahul Anand from Dhanbad, and Karan Jain from Araria, have been taken into custody. The CBI's first operation swept Chandan Singh, and later at 6 PM, Kumar Shanu and Rahul Anand were also secured. The CBI has now presented all arrested suspects before a local Patna court seeking remand.
The director of AIIMS Patna, Dr. G.K. Paul, expressed his shock in a conversation, reiterating that such involvement of their students is surprising and that action will be taken based on CBI's findings, acknowledging the intelligence of the students involved.
The CBI has successfully traced the entire network from the NEET paper getting leaked to its distribution amongst complicit candidates. Pankaj, who allegedly masterminded the theft of the papers from a delivery truck, has been apprehended alongside connections leading to the principal of the Oasis School in Hazaribagh, where the papers reportedly reached a certain Sanjeev Mukhiya.
Two Arrests Made on Tuesday in NEET Leak Probe
As the investigation tightened, CBI detained two individuals on Tuesday. Pankaj Kumar from Patna and Raju Singh from Hazaribagh, Jharkhand were arrested, with Pankaj facing charges of stealing the exam papers from a truck and distributing them further, while Raju was implicated in aiding the paper's dissemination.
Source: aajtak
NEET-UG Authority Refutes Claims of Leak in Patna and Sawai Madhopur, Submits Written Arguments in Supreme Court
According to sources, Pankaj, a civil engineer residing in Bokaro, Jharkhand, was the main thief of the paper from a Hazaribagh truck and further distributed it within his network. NTA had supposedly distributed the papers through this same truck to various exam centers.
The Backstory Unfolds
Ever since the NEET UG results were declared on June 4, turmoil has been brewing amongst the candidates. Observing 67 top scorers and 8 top scorers from the same center in the list, students began to suspect foul play. Subsequently, demands for an investigation against NTA arose from the streets to social media. Multiple petitions were filed in the Supreme Court, and amidst this, NTA decided to reconduct exams for candidates who received grace marks. On June 23, a retest was held, and the number of top scorers dropped from 67 to 61.
