After UGC-NET, CBI also filed FIR in NEET-UG paper leak case, NTA also on the radar

New Delhi : The CBI will now investigate the alleged paper leak case in the UGC-NET exam conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) on June 18 and the NEET-UG exam on May 5. After UGC NET, the CBI has also registered an FIR in the alleged paper leak case for the NEET-UG exam on June 23 on the complaint received from the Ministry of Education. The CBI will not only find out the ‘paper leak gang’ in both the papers, but if any top official of NTA or any lower employee is involved in this case, then the CBI will also arrest him/her. The special team formed by the CBI in this case has also reached Patna and Godhra. In the Patna case, it is said that the CBI team was also attacked there.

A CBI official said that the first case was registered on June 20 on the basis of a complaint filed by the Secretary of the Department of Education, Government of India on June 19. There is a suspicion of leakage of the UGC-NET paper conducted by NTA in two shifts across the country on June 18. In this case, the Indian Cyber ​​Crime Coordination Center, an agency working under the Union Home Ministry, had given some concrete inputs in the paper leak case. After that, along with cancelling this exam, its investigation was handed over to the CBI.

On the other hand, earlier in this matter, there was a huge uproar across the country regarding the NEET-UG exam conducted by NTA on May 5. In which the possibility of leakage of this paper was expressed. After this, now after the written complaint given to the CBI by the Director of the Ministry of Education, Higher Education Department, the CBI has registered another FIR due to the possibility of alleged paper leak in the NEET-UG exam. The CBI said that allegations have been made in the FIR that the NEET (UG)-2024 exam was conducted by NTA on May 5 at 4,750 centers in 571 cities of the country. It also included 14 cities abroad. More than 23 lakh candidates had given this exam. The complaint states that different incidents came to light in some states during the NEET (UG) 2024 examination.

In such a situation, in view of all the apprehensions and incidents, the Ministry of Education has requested the CBI to conduct a comprehensive investigation into all the alleged irregularities. This includes conspiracy, fraud, impersonation, betrayal and destruction of evidence by candidates, institutions and middlemen as well as all other efforts related to paper leak. Now the CBI has started a comprehensive investigation into these.

The CBI official also said that the ministry has also told the CBI that if any government employee associated with the conduct of the examination is involved in the irregularities, then an investigation should be conducted against him/her as well, irrespective of his/her post. The CBI says that cases have already been registered in this case by the local police in Patna and Godhra in Gujarat. The CBI will take over these cases registered by the state police in this case and start investigating them as well.