CBI arrests principal, vice-principal of Jharkhand school in NEET-UG leak case

“They will be produced before the appropriate court in Patna within 24 hours,” a source in CBI said. However, there’s no clarity yet on the grounds of the arrest, with the source only saying: “It will be conveyed to the concerned court.”

When The Indian Express visited the Hazaribagh school earlier this week, Haque had said that a digital lock on two boxes containing question papers did not open at 1.15 pm on May 5 — the day of the exam — as it was supposed to, because of which they had to use a cutter.

He had said that they called the NTA in a panic as it was almost time for the exam to begin, and were told to manually open the digital lock.

The exam centre’s superintendent had told The Indian Express that on June 21, officials of the Bihar economic offences unit came to investigate. The EOU had found that the serial code found on the burnt remains of a leaked question paper in Bihar matched with the Oasis School examination centre in Hazaribagh.

EOU officials took with them the two aluminium boxes which had the question

On Thursday, the CBI had arrested two people from Patna, who had allegedly made arrangements for accommodation for NEET-UG examinees on May 4, a day before the exam – the same day they allegedly memorised the solved paper. Four examinees are among 13 accused in the case, besides five more arrests made later.

On June 22, the Ministry of Education had handed over the matter of alleged irregularities in the NEET (UG) examination 2024 to CBI for “a comprehensive investigation”.