Was the original question paper leaked? Sold for Rs 2 lakh, Students from Kerala under suspicion

NEW DELHI: The CBI has expanded its investigation into the NEET question paper leak to ten states, including Kerala. It has been found that the sample of the leaked question paper has also reached Kerala. The Rajasthan Police had handed over the details of about 200 students who received the question paper to the CBI. It is reported that there are people from two districts of Kerala.

Initial information is that the NEET question paper leak started from Nashik. The investigation team is trying to arrest Dhananja, an accomplice of Shubham, who was arrested in Nashik. The CBI has formed a special team in the case and intensified the investigation. The CBI has presently assigned four teams for this purpose.

It is reported that the question paper was leaked from the printing place. The question paper was printed at a press in Nashik this time. Shubham Karniyar, a medical student, received the question paper intact from this printing press. He handed it over to a doctor in Haryana through a courier. Through him, the mastermind Manish Yadav and Rakesh Kumar received it.

Later, the gang members in places including Jaipur, Delhi, Kerala, Dehradun, Jammu and Kashmir, Bihar, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh received it. To avoid being caught, the gang changed the original question paper they initially received into a model question paper. Later, they took money and gave it to the needy. The question paper was sold through social media platforms including Telegram and WhatsApp for Rs 25,000 to Rs 2 lakh.

The investigation team suspects that a medical student from Churu, who is studying in Kerala, is also a link in this expert fraud gang. It is reported that some students in Kerala also received the model question paper through him. It was found that 90 out of 45 biology questions in the model question paper and 35 out of 45 chemistry questions were from the original question paper.

However, the investigation team also doubts whether the students received the original question paper. Meantime, the Federation of All India Medical Associations (FAIMA) has filed a petition seeking the Supreme Court's intervention in the case.