The CBI has arrested two more persons, including a candidate, from Patna in the NEET-UG paper leak case, taking the🦩 total number of arres💙ts by the agency to 11, officials said on Tuesday.
This is the first time the CBI has arrested a candidate in conneꦅction with the alleged 🅺irregularities in NEET-UG, they said.
NEET-UG aspirant Sunny, who hails from Nalanda, and the father of ano📖ther candidate Ranjitဣ Kumar, who is from Gaya, have been arrested, they said.
The CBI has so far arrested eight people in the Bihar NEET-UGꦓ paper leak case, one each in connection with alleged exam manipulation in Gujarat's Latur and Godhra, and o🅘ne from Dehradun in connection with general conspiracy, the officials said.
The agency had earlier arrested the principal and vice principal of Jharkhand's Hazaribagh-based Oasis s🌺chool in the case and two persons who allegedly provided safe premises to NEET candidates where burnt question papers were recovered by the Bihar Police.
The CBI, which is probing the alleg๊ed irregularities in the medical entrance exam, has registered six FIRs.
The FIR from Bihar pertains to paper leaks while the remaining from Gujarat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra are linked to the impersonation ไof candidates and cheating.
The agency's own FIR on a reference from the Union Education Ministry pertains to a "comprehensive investigation" into the༒ alleged irregularities in the examinatio෴n.
NEET-UG is conduct🦹ed by the NTA for admissions to MBBS, BDS, AYUSH and other related courses in government and private institutions. This year, the exam was conducted on May 5 at 4,750 centres in 571 cities, including 14 abroad. More than 23 lakh candidates had appeared for the test.
