CBI Nabs Alleged Mastermind In NEET-UG Paper Leak Case From Patna— All You Need To Know

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday (10 July) arrested the alleged kingpin of the Bihar NEET-UG case from Patna.

The central agency arrested alleged NEET-UG case mastermind Rakesh Ranjan, alias Rocky, and produced him before a court, which sent him to CBI's custody for 10 days.

After his arrest, the probe agency conducted searches at various locations connected to him in Patna and Kolkata, which led to the recovery of several incriminating documents, officials said.

Rakesh reportedly used to run a hotel in Ranchi, Jharkhand. It was he who leaked the NEET-UG question paper and then forwarded it to a person named Chintu, who further circulated and printed the papers with answers for the students.

Rakesh is the nephew of Sanjeev Mukhia, another accused in the NEET paper leak case.

Rakesh had also arranged solvers for the NEET-UG exams after the question papers were leaked. Several MBBS students from Patna and Ranchi were hired as solvers by him.

Over a dozen people, including the principal and vice-principal of a school in Jharkhand's Hazaribagh, have been arrested so far, as various state police forces and the CBI investigate a national racket that involves leaking of question papers for competitive exams like NEET.

The arrest of the main accused comes two days after the probe agency nabbed two more people, including a candidate, from Patna in connection with the case.

A NEET-UG aspirant, Sunny who hails from Nalanda and father of another candidate, Ranjit Kumar, who is from Gaya, have been arrested.

As part of this probe, the CBI has registered six FIRs in the case so far.

One FIR from Bihar involves paper leaks, while the other FIRs from Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra are related to cases of impersonation and cheating during the exam.

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