The NEET-UG paper 'leak' trail: Gurugram doctor, Kerala MBBS student, Sikar PG

Sikar has emerged as the main focus of the CBI's NEET paper 'leak' investigation. The alleged leak prompted the National Testing Agency (NTA) to cancel the NEET-UG exam held on May 3, affecting over 22 lakh candidates.


Sikar, fast emerging as Rajasthan's new Kota, is now the biggest focus area of the CBI in its probe into the NEET paper leak case. The "leak" eventually prompted the under-fire National Testing Agency (NTA) to cancel the NEET-UG exam held on May 3, affecting over 22 lakh candidates and triggering massive protests in Delhi. So far, the investigation by the Rajasthan Police Special Operations Group (SOG) has revealed a complex trail from Nashik, where the paper was printed, to Sikar, to other parts of the country.

Investigators believe that the NEET-UG paper might have been leaked directly from the printing press in Nashik. Sources said a person associated with the printing press is likely to have passed the paper into a "chain network" through which it reached a doctor in Gurugram, Haryana. A man named Khatik from Jaipur's Jamwa Ramgarh then allegedly purchased the paper from the doctor. Sources said the CBI has already detained the person linked to the Nashik printing press.

HOW NEET-UG PAPER GOT LEAKED?

It is here that things get interesting. From Jamwa Ramgarh, the paper allegedly reached a person named Rakesh Kumar Mandawaria in Sikar. Rakesh works as an MBBS counselling agent outside major coaching institutes in Sikar. Sources said that the NEET paper got distributed through a one-to-one network across the country, reaching coaching centres in Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, Bihar, Kerala and Uttarakhand.


Investigators said the paper was circulated as a "guess paper". Guess papers are basically practice questions prepared by tutors based on previous years' trends.


In fact, the paper had been circulating for nearly 15 days before the May 3 examination, being sold to medical aspirants for anywhere between Rs 30,000 and Rs 28 lakh. In fact, a student from Nagaur, who arrived in Sikar four days before the May 3 exam, shelled out Rs 28 lakh for the paper.


During questioning, this student said he received a call from Delhi saying the "paper had arrived".


So, how did the network get exposed? Now, such circulation by the paper mafia is done with utmost secrecy. But this time, the greed for money allegedly led to the network being busted.


THIS WILL BE IN TOMORROW'S EXAM

It started with Rakesh selling the paper for Rs 30,000 to one of his aides, a Sikar student studying MBBS in Kerala. Just a day before the exam, the MBBS student sent the paper to his father, a PG operator in Sikar.


"Papa, a friend from Sikar sent this to me. Please give it to the girls in your hostel. This is what will come in tomorrow's exam," the message read. Without giving it much thought, the PG operator allegedly circulated the paper among the girls staying at the hostel, investigators said.


After the NEET-UG exam ended on May 3, the PG operator asked a teacher at a coaching institute to verify how many questions actually appeared in the exam.


It was found that all 90 questions in Biology and all 45 questions in Chemistry asked in the NEET exam were found in the "guess paper" that contained 281 questions. The NEET exam has a total of 180 questions, each carrying four marks.

In fact, investigators found that all 45 Chemistry questions in the "guess paper" were in the same sequence as the actual NEET paper, without any changes in even commas or full stops.


THE CRACKDOWN

After learning this, the hostel operator first approached the Udyog Nagar police station in Sikar. However, he told investigators that the police dismissed him, asking him not to spread rumours. He then shared the information with the National Testing Agency (NTA), which conducts the NEET exam.


The NTA passed on the information to the Intelligence Bureau (IB), which then alerted the Rajasthan Police. Following this, the Rajasthan SOG launched an investigation and initially detained around 15 people, including the hostel operator.


It then expanded the raids in Dehradun and Jhunjhunu, detaining more suspects. Rakesh, the MBBS counsellor from Sikar, who allegedly sent the paper to the Kerala-based student, has also been detained.


Investigators, for now, have zeroed in on Sikar and Jaipur. They suspect that Sikar is likely to have become a new hub for paper leak networks.


There is a reason behind it. After Kota, a major JEE-NEET coaching hub, Sikar is rapidly emerging as one of India's largest coaching centres. With admissions declining in Kota, a large number of students are gradually shifting towards Sikar.


Probe has revealed that while the paper may have leaked in Jaipur first, it saw its widest circulation in Sikar. While agencies have mapped the entire chain of the alleged leak, the hunt is now on to reach the mastermind behind the network.


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