NEET-UG question paper stolen from school in Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh on morning of exam: CBI
The ‘solved paper was shared with certain selected students who paid money’, the Central Bureau of Investigation said on Thursday.
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The question paper for the 2024 undergraduate National Eligibility-Cum-Entrance Test was stolen from Oasis School in Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh on the morning of May 5, the day of the exam, said the Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday.
The competitive entrance exam for admissions to undergraduate medical courses was held at 4,751 centres in India this year. Around 24 lakh students appeared for it.
After the results of the exam were announced on June 4, allegations of question paper leaks and other irregularities came to light. The Central Bureau of Investigation filed a first information report in the case on June 22.
On Thursday, the investigating agency said that after the question paper was stolen, it was solved by a group of MBBS students and shared with “certain selected students who paid money to the accused”.
“These solvers were specially brought to Hazaribagh as part of the conspiracy,” the agency said. “The candidates who gained access to the solved question paper are being traced and necessary action is being taken.”
The Hindustan Times reported on Friday that the solvers are students from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Bihar’s Patna, the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences in Ranchi and another medical college in Rajasthan’s Bharatpur. Seven of them have been arrested.
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