The Central Bureau Of Investigation (CBI) on Friday arrested a first-year MBBS student of Ranchi’s Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) for allegedly helping to solve the stolen question paper in the NEET-UG paper leak. Surbhi Kumari, a first-year student, was taken into custody after two days of detailed questioning by the CBI.
Kumari was allegedly the fifth member of the ‘solver module’ which was present in Hazaribagh on the morning of May 5, the NEET-UG examination day, to solve the paper stolen by Pankaj Kumar, officials added.
The CBI had approached RIMS, an autonomous institute under the Jharkhand government, earlier this week for questioning.
“The CBI team contacted the hospital management on Wednesday saying they wanted to question her in connection with the NEET paper leak. The management extended full cooperation to the team. On Thursday too, they grilled her and said she would be questioned further,” RIMS PRO Rajiv Ranjan was quoted by PTI as saying.
The central probe agency also arrested Surender Kumar from Hazaribagh in Jharkhand. Kumar allegedly helped Pankaj steal the question paper.
‘Solver Module’ Of NEET-UG Paper Leak Gang
Pankaj Kumar alias Aditya, a 2017-batch civil engineer from the National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur (Jharkhand), allegedly stole the NEET-UG paper from the NTA trunk in Hazaribagh. In its investigation, the CB found that seven people were tasked to solve the question paper. These seven people were tasked with solving 25 questions each in approximately 45 minutes.
As many as five people from the ‘solver module’ have been arrested by the CBI to date.
The CBI has arrested a total of 16 persons in connection with the NEET-UG paper leak case.
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