Six more arrested in NEET-UG paper leak case from Jharkhand as probe widens | Patna News – Times of India
Officials said the six arrested people, suspected to be “handlers” and “couriers”, are residents of Bihar’s Nalanda district and were holed up in Deogarh as labourers to escape detection.
Deoghar SDPO Hrithik Srivastava said the suspects had been hiding allegedly in the house of one Jhunu Singh in Devipur locality ever since Bihar Police exposed the widespread cheating on May 5. The EOU picked them up from the “safe house” near AIIMS Deoghar and brought them to Patna on transit remand.The arrested have been identified as Paramjit Singh alias Bittu, Baldev Kumar alias Chintu, Prashant Kumar alias Kaju, Ajit Kumar, Rajiv Kumar alias Karu, and Pinku Kumar.
“If needed, we will check the possibility of brain-mapping and narco-analysis tests on some of the arrested. Enforcement Directorate will also probe the money-laundering aspect under sections of the PMLA,” an EOU officer said.
Investigations so far have revealed that Sanjiv Mukhiya alias Luta, a technical assistant at Noorsarai Horticulture College in Nalanda, could be the mastermind of the paper leak racket.
“The gang had been plotting this for several months and it was a professor from Hazaribagh who had sent the question papers to Sanjiv using WhatsApp. Later, with the help of medical students from Patna and Ranchi, the paper was solved,” a top official said. Once solved, it was sent with the answers to Chintu of Karai Parsurai. The investigating agency is now trying to locate the professor. Following Chintu’s directions, Pintu of Hilsa, Nalanda, made photocopies of the question papers and gave it on May 5 to around 30 candidates staying at the “safe house”, now identified as the closed play school in Patna’s Khemnichak locality.
The results of three candidates who were jailed also indicate they could only memorise questions and answers in one subject as their percentile in that particular subject was better than in others.
A team also visited Hazaribagh following reports of a NEET-UG paper leak from one of the five exam centres there. Officer in charge Sandeep Kumar of Lohsinghna police station said EOU was also tracking a courier through whom the NEET papers were handed over to a SBI manager in Hazaribagh.
