BIHAR POLICE ARRESTS FIVE MORE; NTA DEBARS 17 CANDIDATES
This retest followed a Supreme Court directive after allegations surfaced regarding the allocation of grace marks due to delayed starts at six examination centres on May 5.
The issue of grace marks became contentious when it was alleged that they contributed to score inflation, notably allowing six candidates from a Haryana centre to achieve a perfect score of 720, alongside 61 others. The controversy prompted the Centre to inform the apex court that grace marks would be scrapped, offering affected candidates the option to retake the exam.
“In the retest conducted on Sunday, 813 candidates participated, representing 52% of those eligible. No candidates appeared in Chandigarh, while Chhattisgarh saw 291 candidates, Gujarat one, Haryana 287, and Meghalaya 234 taking the examination,” stated a senior National Testing Agency (NTA) official.
Meanwhile, the Bihar Police’s Economic Offences Unit (EOU) intensified its probe into the NEET “paper leak” by apprehending five more suspects in Jharkhand’s Deoghar, bringing the total arrests to 18. The development comes on a day the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed an FIR, following a reference from the Union education ministry, amid nationwide protests and legal challenges related to alleged paper leaks.
According to a statement by the EOU, the five arrested persons have been identified as Baldev Kumar, Mukesh Kumar, Panku Kumar, Rajeev Kumar and Paramjeet Singh, all hailing from Nalanda.
Baldev Kumar, associated with the notorious Sanjeev Kumar alias Lutan Mukhiya gang, allegedly received the solved answer sheet of the NEET-UG exam in PDF format on his mobile phone a day before the exam. The statement implicated members of the Mukhiya gang, accused of orchestrating multiple interstate paper leaks, as the source of the leaked answer sheet.
This story is from the June 24, 2024 edition of Millennium Post Delhi.
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