PATNA/BHILWARA/JAIPUR: A medical student from Rajasthan was arrested by the CBI in Patna on Saturday in connection with the NEET-UG 2024 paper leak case, making him the eighth MBBS student apprehended so far.
Sandeep Kumar Bishnoi, a first-year MBBS student at Rajmata Vijaya Raje Scindia (RVRS) Medical College in Bhilwara, was summoned to Patna by the Central agency for questioning.
Bishnoi allegedly confessed to his involvement in solving the NEET-UG question paper. Subsequently, he was formally arrested and produced in a special court in Patna, which granted the agency five days of custody.
According to CBI sources, Sandeep was part of a solver gang that, along with other medical students, had solved the NEET-UG question paper in Hazaribag, Jharkhand, ahead of the May 5 exam conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA).
The CBI had already arrested four MBBS students from AIIMS-Patna on July 18: Karan Jain from Araria, Chandan Singh from Siwan, Kumar Sanu from Patna, and Rahul Anand from Dhanbad.
Additionally, a first-year MBBS student from Ranchi’s Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) was arrested on July 19. Kumar Manglam Bishnoi and Deepender Kumar from Rajasthan’s Bharatpur Medical College were arrested on July 20.
These students were part of a “solver module gang” that solved the stolen paper, which had allegedly been taken from the NTA trunk in Hazaribag by Pankaj Kumar, alias Aditya, a 2017-batch civil engineer from NIT-Jamshedpur.
