8-member EOU team to probe NEET 'leak'

PATNA: The Economic Offences Unit (EOU) will now investigate the alleged question paper leak of NEET (UG) exam 2024 that was held on May 5. An eight-member special investigating team (SIT) has been formed that will be headed by EOU SP (Administration), Madan Kumar Anand.
Till date, 13 persons, including four candidates, have been arrested in connection with alleged leak.The rest are parents and gang members, officials said.
The press release issued by the EOU here on Friday said that over 20 medical aspirants, who came from various areas of Bihar, were ferried to a rented house at Ramkrishna Nagar in Patna in two vehicles, where they were handed over the question papers and answers. Among those apprehended on May 5 was Sikander Yadavendu (56), who had leased two to three rooms in the two-storey building, in Ramkrishna Nagar. The vehicles have been seized.
According to an official, Yadavendu, hailing from Samastipur district, provided the aspirants with the question papers and answers. "Ahead of NEET, he rented the rooms at a secluded house, where a playschool ran before the pandemic. The candidates were taken from there to the exam centres on May 5," he said.