June 22, 2024 8:15 PM.
Bihar Police have arrested six persons from the Deoghar district of Jharkhand in connection with alleged irregularities in the NEET medical entrance examination. The Deoghar Sadar SDPO, Ritvik Srivastava, said, the suspects were apprehended from a rented house near AIIMS-Deoghar in the Devipur police station area. Upon identification, all suspects were taken into custody and transferred to Bihar. It may be noted that the Economic Offence Unit of Bihar is investigating the case.
Another team of the Bihar Police went to Hazaribagh and Ranchi on Friday following a tip-off. It visited Oasis School in Hazaribagh to record the statements of the examination controller and teachers. In Hazaribagh, NEET was conducted across four centres — Vivekanand School, Xavier School, Oasis School and DAV School.
In Ranchi, the Bihar Police searched the premises of a courier agency at Kokar Chowk. Police officials said NEET exam papers were sent through courier to different states. Police checked CCTV footage from the agency’s office and recorded statements of its employees.
A senior EOU official told The Hindu that the police has found that a partially burnt question paper it had recovered from a flat belonging to one of the accused in Patna was allocated to a NEET centre in Hazaribag.
“We wanted to tally the burnt paper with the real question paper and requested the National Testing Agency to share the question papers. After tallying, we have come to know that the question paper series was allocated to a centre in Hazaribagh,” the official said.