The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested the alleged mastermind behind the NEET-UG 2024 paper leak, a B.Tech graduate, along with two MBBS students who acted as solvers in the case. The MBBS students, from a medical school in Bharatpur, Rajasthan, were detained following the arrest of Surabhi Kumari, a first-year MBBS student at Ranchi’s Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), according to PTI.
Kumari was questioned extensively over two days about her role in solving the stolen NEET-UG exam paper on May 5. This arrest is part of a larger crackdown by the national investigation agency in response to the public outrage over the paper leak.
The NEET-UG paper was reportedly stolen by Pankaj Kumar, also known as Aditya, a civil engineer from the 2017 batch of the National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur. Kumar is accused of stealing the paper from the NTA trunk in Hazaribagh.
Before Kumari’s arrest, the CBI had also taken four MBBS students from AIIMS Patna into custody. These students were part of the solver module, responsible for solving the stolen paper and creating an answer key, which was then sold to NEET aspirants who paid for their services. The detained students are currently under a four-day remand.
This operation underscores the CBI’s commitment to rooting out corruption in the examination system and ensuring the integrity of the NEET-UG exam.
