The principal and vice principal of a school were arrested by the CBI on Friday in Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh in connection with the NEET-UG paper leak case, according to officials, PTI reported.
Ehsanul Haque, the principal of Oasis School, was appointed as the city coordinator of Hazaribagh for the medical entrance exam conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) on May 5. Vice Principal Imtiaz Alam was designated as the NTA’s observer and the centre coordinator at the Oasis School. Officials stated that the CBI is also questioning five more individuals from the district in connection with the paper leak case.
The federal probe agency arrested Haque and Alam after detailed questioning. The CBI has registered six FIRs in the NEET-UG paper leak case, including its own FIR based on a reference from the Union Education Ministry and five from the states where it took over the investigation. The probe agency has taken over one case each in Bihar and Gujarat and three cases in Rajasthan.