144 aspirants bought leaked NEET-UG paper: CBI

Haque was the city 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 over 5,500 pages, carrying findings on the basis of 298 witnesses, 290 documents and 45 material objects, gives a detailed modus operandi of the gang that had leaked the paper. “Haque and Alam allegedly allowed Kumar, a civil engineer of the 2017 batch of the National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur, to enter the room where the trunks were kept,” the spokesperson added.

“Once inside, Kumar tampered with the hinges of the trunk containing the question papers, removed one question paper and photographed all its pages. He put back the paper and resealed the trunk before exiting the control room. Pankaj used a sophisticated tool kit to open and seal the trunk. This tool kit was seized by CBI from the residence of Pankaj Kumar,” the spokesperson said.

“After leaving the school premises, he handed over the photos of the Q-paper to his accomplice Surendra Kumar Sharma who was at the Raj Guest House, Hazaribagh,” the CBI Spokesperson said.

Nine medical students solved these question papers at the Guest House in Hazaribagh. These solved papers were allegedly scanned and electronically sent to different locations where gangs received them, printed them and handed them to the aspirants who had paid money.