Amidst the swirling rumors and allegations of a NEET paper leak 2024, four people including two MBBS students were arrested for allegedly running a paper solver gang for NEET Exam.
NEET Paper Leak 2024: Amidst the swirling rumors and allegations of a NEET paper leak 2024, four people including two MBBS students were arrested for allegedly running a paper solver gang for NEET exams here, police said on Saturday. As per the news agency PTI report, the matter came to the fore on May 5 when a student’s biometric data was mismatched during the NEET exam at Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan Mehta Vidyalaya located in Tilak Marg area, police added. Deputy Commissioner of Police (New Delhi) Devesh Kumar Mahla said the two proxy students Sumit Mandoliya and Krishan Kesarwani, were caught from the NEET exam centre.
With over 24 lakh students registering, NEET (UG) 2024 has been conducted successfully by the National Testing Agency (NTA) across 4750 centres in 571 cities (including 14 cities abroad) on May 5, 2024. Given the seriousness of the offence, the case was transferred to the Special Staff of New Delhi District and a dedicated team led by Inspector Sanjay Kumar Gupta was formed to conduct the investigations, the DCP added.
NEET Paper Leak 2024: 20 to 25 lakhs charged for proxy
During sustained interrogation, Sumit Mandoliya and Krishan Kesarwani, both MBBS students, revealed the names of their handlers — Prabhat Kumar, 27, and Kishor Lal, 37 — who were nabbed from a hotel in Noida on Friday.
The officer added that Kumar and Lal are residents of Rajasthan and Bihar, respectively. The duo, who work as medical school admissions consultants, charged aspirants between Rs 20 to 25 lakhs to provide proxy students for the NEET exams. They would also mix the photos of the proxy and original students to create another photo digitally to paste on the form. This helped them to mislead the examiners, the officer added, PTI reported.
Another officer added, that Mandoliya and Kesarwani, hailing from Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, respectively, are MBBS students from different colleges.
NEET Paper Leak 2024: Four mobile phones and one Kia Seltos car recovered
Mandoliya is a second-year MBBS student at a Medical College in West Bengal and Kesarwani is a first-year student of MBBS at a Medical College in Uttarakhand, he added. The police have recovered four mobile phones and one Kia Seltos car from their possession. The police said the accused were further interrogated to know their involvement in previous exams. Investigation into the matter is underway.
(With Inputs From PTI)