NEET paper leak: Accused who allegedly stole question paper from sealed trunk arrested

The CBI on Tuesday arrested two persons, including one of the key accused, in connection with the NEET-UG paper leak case, a source said.

“We have arrested two men identified as Pankaj Kumar alias Aditya, a 2017-batch civil engineer from the National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur, who allegedly stole the NEET-UG paper from the NTA trunk in Hazaribagh and his associate, Raju Singh who allegedly helped Kumar in stealing the paper,” said the source.

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With the two arrests, the total number of persons arrested in connection with cases pertaining to leakage, impersonation and other irregularities in the exam has now reached 14.

The agency, which is probing the alleged irregularities in the exam, has registered six FIRs.