New Delhi: CBI informed that it had arrested one of the masterminds and two more who allegedly solved the exam papers for money. The first one is a B Tech graduate from NIT-Jamshedpur, while the second two were MBBS students, PTI reported.
With the fresh arrests, the total number of people held so far by the agency in six cases related to the alleged irregularities in the medical entrance exam has now reached 21, they said.
They said that the two MBBS students arrested on Saturday -- Kumar Mangalam Bishnoi (2nd year) and Deepender Sharma (1st year) -- are from a medical school in Bharatpur, Rajasthan, and they solved the exam papers stolen by Pankaj Kumar, an engineer, from a National Testing Agency trunk in Hazaribagh.
The two "solvers" were present in Hazaribagh on May 5, the date the NEET-UG examination was conducted across the country.
According to sources, these two were part of the solver module in which five MBBS students had already been arrested. The answers were handed over to NEET UG aspirants who had availed the services of the gang, they said.
They also said the third person arrested on Saturday -- Sashikant Paswan alias Sashi alias Pasu, a B.Tech (Electrical) pass out from the National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur -- was acting in tandem with Kumar and Rockey, who was also arrested earlier.
The agency alleged that Paswan was one of the kingpins and masterminds in the paper leak case.
The paper leak case was taken over by the CBI from the Bihar Police.
The CBI has already arrested Pankaj Kumar, who stole the paper, and Raju Singh, who helped him in the process. One of the masterminds -- Rockey -- was also arrested by the agency.
On Thursday, it arrested one Surender Sharma, who also helped Kumar in Hazaribagh.