NEET UG 2024 Row: For the last 48 hours, CBI has been questioning the principal of the school, sources said. He was taken to a CBI guest house in Hazaribag along with a few other persons.
A CBI team on Wednesday started interrogating the principal of Oasis School in Hazaribag, Dr Ehsanul Haque, who was the district coordinator of the NEET-UG exam in Hazaribag. For the last 48 hours, CBI has been questioning the principal of the school, sources said. He was taken to a CBI guest house in Hazaribag along with a few other persons.
The family of Dr Ehsanul Haque has reached the CBI guest house with his clothes. CBI trying to establish the discrepancies that happened on May 3rd when the question papers were being transported, sources added.
While distributing NEET UG question papers to students, officials of any exam centre are required to open two aluminium boxes — one manual, and another digital. While the manual is opened using a key and cutter, the digital one unlocks automatically 45 minutes before the examination. However, the digital lock did not open at the Oasis School, which was a NEET UG exam centre and a cutter was used to open the box prior to the exam. Besides, according to Bihar’s Economic Offences Unit (EOU), the question papers which are enclosed in a seven-layered plastic envelope had a breach at one end and appeared to have been cut at the Oasis School exam centre.
Furthermore, a Central Bureau of Investigation team also visited the main branch of the State Bank of India (SBI) in the Hazaribag district on Wednesday to question the manager. He was reportedly the custodian of the question papers. The bank had reportedly received the question papers sent by a courier service operator in an e-rickshaw, reported PTI.
The CBI on Thursday made its first arrest in the NEET UG paper leak case. Two men were arrested from Bihar’s Patna — Manish Prakash and Ashutosh Kumar. Ashutosh is accused of providing premises where NEET aspirants studied the leaked question paper, while Manish allegedly arranged the paper.
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