EOU handed over the NEET question paper leak case to CBI

EOU handed over the NEET question paper leak case to CBI

Patna June 24: After the Central Bureau of Investigation took over the charge of the NEET question paper leak case, the Economic Offence Unit (EOU) of Bihar police handed over the reports and evidence to the CBI officials on Monday.

Earlier on Saturday, the Union Ministry of Education announced to transfer of the NEET paper leak case to the CBI. Accordingly, the CBI has registered an FIR based on the investigation reports of EOU Bihar. With this, the CBI will look after the investigation of this case.

On Monday, two CBI officers went to the EOU office in Patna and met with the EOU officials regarding this case. Sources have said that the EOU handed over the documents and evidence to the CBI sleuths.

The NEET question paper leak case was cracked by the Patna police on the day of the examination on May 5 and registered an FIR in the Shastri Nagar police station in Patna.

The case was later handed over to the EOU Bihar police on May 15. Now, the Union Ministry of Education handed over the case to the CBI. EOU has arrested 19 accused so including 12 education mafias, 4 candidates and 3 parents. 13 accused were arrested by the Patna police and 6 examination mafias were arrested from Deoghar in Jharkhand on Sunday. 

Patna police first arrested Sikandar Yadvendu, Akhilesh and Bittu from the Rajvansi Nagar locality in Patna. After strong interrogation, they confessed to the crime and revealed the names of the kingpin and the operators of the NEET question paper leak case.

During the investigation of EOU, it appeared that the question paper was leaked from the Oasis school in the Hazaribag district of Jharkhand.

According to the source of EOU, a question paper with a booklet number (6136488) came on the WhatsApp of the examination mafia in Patna. That booklet was received by that school in Hazaribagh.

During the investigation, it also appeared that the box in which the booklet reached the school was also found tampered with. Now, the investigation agency will probe the line of whether the question paper was leaked while coming from the warehouse to the bank or it was stolen between the bank and the examination centre.

As per an official of EOU, Sanjeev Mukhiya, an employee of Nursarai Udyan College, Nalanda, is the kingpin of the paper leak gang. He was conspiring with his gang to leak the NEET exam paper for several months. Before the exam, a professor had sent the paper to Sanjeev Mukhiya on WhatsApp. After this, the paper was solved with the help of medical students from Patna and Ranchi.

After preparing the answers to all the questions, it was sent to the mobile of Chintu Kumar alias Baldev of Karayparsurai block of Nalanda district.

Bihar’s EOU also has a list of such candidates who were given the paper before the exam and were made to memorize its answers.

CBI will take the custody of those 19 accused.

According to the sources of EOU, the nexus of examination mafias spreads in six states including Bihar, Jharkhand, Maharastra, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. 

EOM.