New Delhi: More than 10 MBBS students of government medical colleges in Bihar and Jharkhand are under the scrutiny of Bihar police’s Economic Offences Unit (EOU) for their alleged involvement in the NEET-UG question paper leak case. The students were associated with the inter-state ‘solver gang’ led by Sanjeev Mukhiya alias Lutan, a resident of Nalanda district. They are learnt to be beneficiaries of the racket involved in the leak of question papers for medical entrance examination by the gang, officials associated with the investigation revealed on Sunday, according to The New Indian Express.
The list of the students has been prepared based on information elicited from six members of the ‘solver gang’ arrested from Jharkhand. Raids were conducted in Ranchi and Hazaribagh in search of the students, but they could not be arrested, officials were quoted as saying
Investigation revealed that Sanjeev Mukhiya initially worked for an education mafia Ranjeet Don of Nalanda. Mukhiya’s son Shiv is learnt to have done his MMBS from Patna Medical College and Hospital and is now lodged in Beur Central Jail.
Shiv is an accused in the leak of the question paper of teachers’ recruitment through the Bihar Public Service Commission. Meanwhile, EOU has stumbled upon evidence on the NEET-UG paper leak, officials were quoted as saying by TNIE.
