NEET Paper Leak Case: CBI arrests NIT Jamshedpur graduate, 2 MBBS students

CBI arrested BTech graduate from NIT Jamshedpur and MBBS first-year and second-year students from a medical school in Rajasthan.

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NEET Paper Leak: CBI arrests one of the mastermind. (Representational Image: Wikimedia Commons)
NEET Paper Leak: CBI arrests one of the mastermind. (Representational Image: Wikimedia Commons)

Press Trust of India | July 20, 2024 | 08:45 PM IST

NEW DELHI: The CBI Saturday arrested one of the masterminds, a BTech graduate from NIT Jamshedpur, in the NEET-UG paper leak case and two MBBS students who allegedly acted as "solvers", officials said. With the fresh arrests, the total number of people held so far by the agency in six cases related to the alleged irregularities has now reached 21, they said.

The two MBBS students arrested on Saturday are from a medical school in Bharatpur, Rajasthan. Second-year MBBS student Kumar Mangalam Bishnoi and first-year student Deepender Sharma were present in Hazaribagh on May 5, the date of NEET UG examination, and were allegedly acting as "solvers" for the paper stolen by Pankaj Kumar, an engineer, who was arrested earlier, they said. They said Sashikant Paswan alias Sashi alias Pasu, a BTech (Electrical) passout from the National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur was acting in tandem with Kumar and Rockey, who was also arrested earlier.

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