CBI arrests the alleged NEET-UG 2024 mastermind

The CBI recently made three arrests in the NEET-UG paper leak case, arresting the mastermind and two MBBS students who acted as “solvers.”

Apart from the Lok Sabha elections and many other issues and incidents around the world, one thing that caught the most attention was the NEET-UG 2024 paper leak, so much so that people across India and beyond are still baffled by the turn of events in the case. However, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has now arrested the alleged “mastermind,” a B. Tech graduate, and two MBBS students who acted as “solvers.”

CBI makes arrests in NEET-UG 2024 paper leak case.

On Saturday, July 20, CBI arrested the alleged “mastermind,” a B. Tech graduate in the NEET-UG 2024 paper leak case, along with two MBBS students who acted as “solvers.” The two MBBS students arrested are from a medical school in Bharatpur, Rajasthan, as reported by PTI. These arrests were made a day later after the arrest of a first-year MBBS student, Surabhi Kumari, at Ranchi’s Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS).

National Investigation Agency’s crackdown on the paper leak case.

Surabhi Kumari was interrogated for two days regarding her involvement in solving the stolen exam paper on the day of the NEET-UG exam on May 5, 2024. The National Investigation Agency launched a massive crackdown on those involved in the case in response to the enormous outrage caused across the nation. The NEET-UG paper was stolen by Pankaj Kumar, aka Aditya, a 2017-batch civil engineer from the National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur. He is accused of taking the paper from the NTA Trunk in Hazaribagh.

Before Surabhi Kumari’s arrest, four MBBS students from AIIMS Patna, part of the solver module, were taken into custody by the CBI and placed under a four-day remand. The solver module was responsible for quickly solving the stolen paper and creating an answer key for those NEET aspirants who paid for these services.