2024-06-17 02:56:44
Patna: The Financial Offences Unit (EOU) of Bihar police has recovered six PDCs (post-dated cheques) suspected to have been issued in favour of mafias. Over Rs 30 lakh every was demanded from candidates searching for the alleged leaked query papers forward of the NEET examination held final month. Throughout investigation, EOU officers recovered six ‘post-dated cheques’ issued in favour of criminals who allegedly supplied query papers to candidates forward of the examination, EOU Deputy Inspector Normal (DIG) Manavjit Singh Dhillon stated.
13 arrested from Bihar in NEET case
EOU Deputy Inspector Normal (DIG) Manavjit Singh Dhillon stated that the investigators are amassing details about the account holders from the involved banks. The EOU has up to now arrested 13 individuals within the alleged NEET-UG 2024 paper leak case, together with 4 candidates and their relations. He stated that each one the accused are from Bihar. The NEET-UG examination is carried out by the NTA for admission to MBBS, BDS, AYUSH and different associated programs in authorities and personal establishments throughout the nation.
Discover to 9 candidates from Bihar-UP-Maharashtra
In line with Manavjit Singh Dhillon, the EOU has additionally issued notices to 9 candidates (seven from Bihar and one every from Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra) to look for the investigation. The Nationwide Eligibility cum Entrance Check (NEET-UG) 2024 was carried out by the Nationwide Testing Company (NTA) for greater than 24 lakh candidates at 4,750 facilities in 571 cities. The results of NEET-UG 2024 was declared on June 4. As quickly because the consequence was declared, there was an uproar and plenty of college students alleged irregularities.
Union Schooling Minister admitted the irregularities
Amidst all this, on the NEET situation in Sambalpur, Odisha, Union Schooling Minister Dharmendra Pradhan stated that on the advice of the Supreme Court docket, an order has been given to conduct the re-examination of 1,563 candidates. Some irregularities have come to gentle at two locations. Assuring the scholars and fogeys that the federal government has taken it critically, even when the highest officers of NTA are discovered responsible, they won’t be spared. There’s a want for lots of reform in NTA. The federal government is anxious about this. Nobody will likely be spared. They may get the harshest punishment.