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Ranchi<\/strong>: The Economic Offences Unit (EOU) of the Bihar Police on Friday arrested five more people in connection with the alleged leak of the NEET-UG question paper, bringing the total number of arrests in the case to 18.<\/p>\n The latest arrests were made in Jharkhand\u2019s Deoghar, according to a police official who spoke on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n All five individuals were taken to Patna for further questioning.<\/p>\n Earlier, two people were arrested from Ranchi: Awadesh Kumar and his son Abhishek, a NEET aspirant. In his confession letter, Awadesh had said he paid Rs 40 lakh\u00a0to alleged mastermind Sikandar Yadavendu for the question paper.<\/p>\n Authorities believe Awadesh may have had ties to Sikandar Yadavendu\u00a0through their past working relationship in Jharkhand\u2019s construction industry.<\/p>\n Sources said that Sikandar, a former contractor who now works as a junior engineer for the Danapur Municipal Council, has significant investments in Jharkhand, including a prominent sports outlet named Infinity owned by his son in Ranchi and a sprawling residence in the city\u2019s Bariatu locality.<\/p>\n The Bihar Police\u2019s Economic Offences Unit (EOU) is preparing to register a disproportionate assets case against Sikandar, sources added.<\/p>\n This development follows the earlier arrest of 13 individuals by Bihar Police, including four NEET-UG candidates and their family members, in connection with the case.<\/p>\n The arrested individuals included aspirant Anurag Yadav, Sikandar Yadavendu and two others, Nitish Kumar and Amit Anand. They have confessed to receiving the question paper a day prior to the exam and memorising the answers, police sources said.<\/p>\n The arrests were made following an anonymous tip-off to the Patna Police regarding four suspected criminals in an SUV en route to a safe house. This led the police to a location where around 30 NEET-UG candidates had allegedly paid large sums of Rs 30-50 lakh for leaked exam questions and answers.<\/p>\n The NEET-UG exam has seen students protest over allegations of a question paper leak and grace marks awarded to over 1,500 students. The grace marks were later scrapped and the affected students were offered a re-test.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] Ranchi: The Economic Offences Unit (EOU) of the Bihar Police on Friday arrested five more people in connection with the alleged leak of the NEET-UG question paper, bringing the total number of arrests in the case to 18. The latest arrests were made in Jharkhand\u2019s Deoghar, according to a police official who spoke on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Fake-Income-Tax-officer-dupes-Bolangir-doctor-of-Rs-1-lakh-arrested.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31090,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31088\/revisions\/31090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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