NEET 2 paper leak: Petition in Supreme Court demands retest

The CBSE has denied any paper leak and has said they had matched the original question paper of NEET 2

Written by Neeti Nigam

New Delhi | Updated: August 9, 2016 03:40 PM IST

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Aspirants coming out from Examination Centre after All India Pre-Medical/Pre-Dental Entrance Examination at DAV School in Sector 15 of Chandigarh on Sunday, May 03 2015. Express Photo by Kamleshwar Singh

It seems the row over the National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET) 2 will not get over soon as 10 days after the entrance examination was conducted, a petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking re-examination over an alleged paper leak reported on July 24.

The petition, filed by NEET aspirant Anshul Sharma, said the primary investigations carried out by the Uttarakhand police points out that five persons (one from Delhi and four from Bihar) belonging to an inter-state racket were arrested on July 23, a day before the entrance exam. The persons carried questions papers, cash and post dated cheques of lakhs of rupees and some other documents.

Uttarakhand Police SP Sweety Aggrawal, said, “We arrested five persons around 3:30 am from a resort in Ramnagar. Around 45 students with their guardians were present there. We did sent the question papers to the CBSE.” The Uttarakhand Police have not ruled out the possibility of an alleged nexus with the education mafia.

However, the CBSE has denied any paper leak and has said they had matched the original question paper of NEET 2 and found that the seized material is entirely different from the original question paper of the entrance test.

Read: NEET paper leak: SC refuses to interfere into the probe, petition withdrawn

Moreover, the petition cited Tanvi Sarwal’s case where the apex court has ordered the Board to reconduct All India Pre-Medical / Pre-Dental Entrance Test (AIPMT which is now NEET) 2015 when the allegations regarding leakage of the paper in Haryana was found to be prima facie correct on the basis of the status reports submitted by the Haryana Police. Even then the CBSE was in denial mode but on the basis of investigation report by police, the Court directed re-examination of AIPMT 2015 within a period of four weeks.

As per the statement released by the Board, a total of 4,75,785 candidates registered for the exam. As per preliminary reports received from across the country, more than 90 per cent candidates were present in the examination.

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Neeti Nigam

Neeti Nigam leads the education department at indianexpress.com. She joined the Indian Express in 2015 and has set up the education and job sections in the online department. She covers schools and higher education, entrance and board exams, study abroad, civil services and other career-related news. Prior to that, she worked as a lifestyle and entertainment journalist in The Pioneer newspaper's magazine division. Besides working in the in-flight Air India (Namaskaar) magazine, she was part of the launch team of Indian Railways on-board magazine Rail Bandhu. She has also worked as a city reporter covering north Delhi in Hindustan Times. In 2012, she covered the MCD elections. You can write to her at neeti.nigam@indianexpress.com ... Read More

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