NEET-UG row: CBI detains 3 doctors from AIIMS Patna ahead of SC hearing
The doctors are from the 2021 batch and the CBI is said to have sealed their rooms and seized their laptops and mobile phones
Ahead of the Supreme Court’s hearing of the NEET-UG paper leak case on Thursday (July 18), the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has detained three doctors from AIIMS Patna for questioning.
According to officials, the three doctors are from the 2021 batch. The CBI is said to have sealed their rooms and confiscated their laptops and mobile phones.
Further details on the doctors being quizzed were not immediately known.
2 arrested for stealing question paper
The agency on Tuesday (July 17) had arrested 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, the officials said.
Kumar, a resident of Bokaro, was arrested from Patna, they said.
The CBI had also arrested one Raju Singh who allegedly helped Kumar in stealing the paper, they said, adding that Singh was arrested from Hazaribagh.
6 FIRs filed
The CBI, which is probing the alleged irregularities in the medical-entrance exam, has lodged six FIRs. The FIR from Bihar pertains to paper leak while the remaining ones from Gujarat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra are regarding impersonation of candidates and cheating.
The agency's own FIR on a reference from the Union education ministry pertains to a "comprehensive investigation" into the alleged irregularities in the NEET-UG 2024.
The NEET-UG is conducted by the NTA for admissions to MBBS, BDS, AYUSH and other related courses in government and private institutions. This year, the exam was conducted on May 5 at 4,750 centres in 571 cities, including 14 abroad. More than 23 lakh candidates had appeared for the test.