NEET UG Exam Paper Leak update: 144 aspirants bought leaked paper

The CBI has identified 144 candidates who allegedly paid to have their NEET-UG answers leaked and solved hours before they were scheduled to take the exam for medical school admission.

“The agency named Pankaj Kumar as the person who stole the papers from Oasis school in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, in collaboration with its principal Ahsanul Haque and vice-principal Md Imtiyaz Alam in its third charge sheet that was filed last week. A CBI spokesperson stated, "The crime was allegedly committed once trunks carrying the paper arrived at the school from the bank vault after 8 a.m. on May 5, the day of the examination."

The National Testing Agency appointed Alam as the center superintendent for the NEET UG-2024 examination, and Haque served as the city coordinator for Hazaribagh.

According to the spokesperson, the chargesheet, which consists of more than 5,500 pages and contains findings based on 298 witnesses, 290 documents, and 45 material objects, provides a comprehensive description of the gang's method of operation. According to the spokesperson, Kumar, a civil engineer from the National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur's 2017 batch, was allegedly allowed entry into the room where the trunks were kept by Haque and Alam.