The CBI has recognized 144 candidates who had allegedly paid to get NEET-UG leaked and solved papers hours earlier than they had been to take the examination for admissions in medical faculties.
“In its third cost sheet filed final week, the company has named Pankaj Kumar who stole the papers from Oasis faculty in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand in collusion with its principal Ahsanul Haque and vice-principal Md Imtiyaz Alam. The crime was allegedly dedicated as soon as trunks carrying the paper reached the college from the financial institution vault after 8 am on Might 5, the day of the examination,” a spokesperson of the CBI stated.
Haque was town coordinator for Hazaribagh and Alam was designated the centre superintendent by the Nationwide Testing Company for conducting the NEET UG-2024 examination.
The spokesperson stated the chargesheet with over 5,500 pages, carrying findings on the premise of 298 witnesses, 290 paperwork and 45 materials objects, provides an in depth modus operandi of the gang that had leaked the paper. “Haque and Alam allegedly allowed Kumar, a civil engineer of the 2017 batch of the Nationwide Institute of Know-how, Jamshedpur, to enter the room the place the trunks had been saved,” the spokesperson added.
“As soon as inside, Kumar tampered with the hinges of the trunk containing the query papers, eliminated one query paper and photographed all its pages. He put again the paper and resealed the trunk earlier than exiting the management room. Pankaj used a complicated software package to open and seal the trunk. This software package was seized by CBI from the residence of Pankaj Kumar,” the spokesperson stated.
“After leaving the college premises, he handed over the photographs of the Q-paper to his confederate Surendra Kumar Sharma who was on the Raj Visitor Home, Hazaribagh,” the CBI Spokesperson stated.
9 medical college students solved these query papers on the Visitor Home in Hazaribagh. These solved papers had been allegedly scanned and electronically despatched to completely different areas the place gangs acquired them, printed them and handed them to the aspirants who had paid cash.
