Bhilwara medical student held in NEET leak case, 8th to be nabbed by CBI

Patna: A medical student from Rajasthan was arrested by CBI in Patna on Saturday in connection with the NEET-UG 2024 paper leak case. He is the eighth MBBS student to be nabbed so far.

Sandeep Kumar Bishnoi, a first year MBBS student of Rajmata Vijaya Raje Scindia (RVRS) Medical College in Bhilwara, was called to Patna by the Central agency for questioning. Bishnoi allegedly confessed to his involvement in solving the NEET-UG question paper. Following this, he was formally arrested and produced at a special court in Patna. The court granted five-day custody to the agency.

CBI sources said, Sandeep was part of a solver gang and, along with other medical students, had solved the NEET-UG question paper at Hazaribag in Jharkhand ahead of the May 5 exam conducted by the NTA.

CBI has already arrested four MBBS students from AIIMS-Patna - Karan Jain, who hails from Araria, Chandan Singh from Siwan, Kumar Sanu from Patna, and Rahul Anand from Dhanbad - on July 18, besides a first-year MBBS student of Ranchi's Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) on July 19. Kumar Manglam Bishnoi and Deepender Kumar of Rajasthan's Bharatpur Medical College were arrested on July 20.

They acted as a "solver module gang", which solved paper allegedly stolen from NTA trunk in Hazaribag by Pankaj Kumar, alias Aditya, a 2017-batch civil engineer from the NIT-Jamshedpur.