NEET controversy: Gujarat Police arrest five for alleged cheating at Godhra examination centre
In Bihar, the Patna Police said that its investigation had found evidence of the pre-medical entrance test’s question paper being leaked.
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The Gujarat Police have arrested five persons for alleged malpractice in the National Eligibility-Cum-Entrance Test conducted on May 5 at an examination centre in Panchmahal district’s Godhra, The Hindu reported on Friday.
The Bihar Police also said that an investigation into the alleged irregularities in the pre-medical entrance examination is “suggestive of a paper leak”, The Indian Express reported on Saturday.
Both these developments came after Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday said that no concrete evidence had been found yet to back up claims of a question paper leak and other irregularities in the examination, conducted by the National Testing Agency, for admission to undergraduate medical courses.
In Gujarat, the police are investigating alleged malpractices during the conduct of the National Eligibility-Cum-Entrance Test on May 5 at Jay Jalaram School, which was an examination centre, in Godhra’s Parvadi village.
According to the first information report, students and their parents, along with a coaching centre run by a group of teachers in Vadodara, were involved in the alleged irregularities, The Hindu reported.
The complaint said that students who had allegedly paid money were asked to skip questions they did not know the answers to during the examination. As per the arrangement, the answers to the blank questions were to be filled by the teachers involved in the alleged racket, according to...
