“After leaving the schoolhouse premises, helium handed implicit the photos of the Q-paper to his accomplice Surendra Kumar Sharma who was astatine the Raj Guest House, Hazaribagh,” the CBI Spokesperson said. (File Photo)
The CBI has identified 144 candidates who had allegedly paid to get NEET-UG leaked and solved papers hours earlier they were to instrumentality the introspection for admissions successful aesculapian colleges.
“In its 3rd complaint expanse filed past week, the bureau has named Pankaj Kumar who stole the papers from Oasis schoolhouse successful Hazaribagh, Jharkhand successful collusion with its main Ahsanul Haque and vice-principal Md Imtiyaz Alam. The transgression was allegedly committed erstwhile trunks carrying the insubstantial reached the schoolhouse from the slope vault aft 8 americium connected May 5, the time of the examination,” a spokesperson of the CBI said.
Haque was the metropolis coordinator for Hazaribagh and Alam was designated the centre superintendent by the National Testing Agency for conducting the NEET UG-2024 examination.
The spokesperson said the chargesheet with implicit 5,500 pages, carrying findings connected the ground of 298 witnesses, 290 documents and 45 worldly objects, gives a elaborate modus operandi of the pack that had leaked the paper. “Haque and Alam allegedly allowed Kumar, a civilian technologist of the 2017 batch of the National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur, to participate the country wherever the trunks were kept,” the spokesperson added.
“Once inside, Kumar tampered with the hinges of the trunk containing the question papers, removed 1 question insubstantial and photographed each its pages. He enactment backmost the insubstantial and resealed the trunk earlier exiting the power room. Pankaj utilized a blase instrumentality kit to unfastened and seal the trunk. This instrumentality kit was seized by CBI from the residence of Pankaj Kumar,” the spokesperson said.
“After leaving the schoolhouse premises, helium handed implicit the photos of the Q-paper to his accomplice Surendra Kumar Sharma who was astatine the Raj Guest House, Hazaribagh,” the CBI Spokesperson said.
Nine aesculapian students solved these question papers astatine the Guest House successful Hazaribagh. These solved papers were allegedly scanned and electronically sent to antithetic locations wherever gangs received them, printed them and handed them to the aspirants who had paid money.