Police have arrested 13 people in the NEET paper leak case. The investigation has been handed over to the Bihar Economic Offenses Unit (EOU). Four of these appeared in the NEET-UG held on May 5. The other 9 are considered to be their family members. According to the report, one of the arrested accused is also involved in the Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) Teacher Recruitment Test (TRE)-3 paper leak case.
NEET paper leak case
In the statement, EOU said, ” All the accused are in judicial custody and will begin their custodial interrogation. The police have seized some documents and electronic devices from the accused’s possession. In the investigation, officials found that the NEET UG 2024 solved question paper was shared with 35 candidates before the exam.
The National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) is India’s biggest medical entrance exam. Almost all universities accept NEET scorecards.
The National Testing Agency (NTA) conducted the NEET (UG) 2024 on Sunday, 05 May 2024, in pen-and-paper mode in 13 languages.
For now, NTA has dismissed all claims of paper leaks as baseless and without any ground. However, it accepted that there was a problem at the Sawai Madhopur, Rajasthan centre. The question paper was mistakenly distributed in different languages. Some candidates left the exam hall with the question paper and leaked it on X (formerly Twitter). As per NTA, the test was already underway at the other centres when the incident occurred, and a re-exam was conducted for all such candidates.
There is no news about the NEET 2024 cancellation yet. There will be a re-exam for candidates who missed the exam because of a mistake on the authority’s end.
Official Statement by NTA,
NEET (UG) 2024 has been conducted successfully by the National Testing Agency (NTA)
across 4750 centres in 571 cities on 5th May 2024. This year, registration was highest, with over 24 lakh students registering, with over 10 lakh male students and over 13 lakh female
students.