Students raise slogans during a protest over the alleged irregularities in NEET-UG 2024 results. (Image: PTI/File)
NEET UG 2024 Row: For the last 48 hours, CBI has been questioning the principal of the school, sources said. He was taken to a CBI guest house in Hazaribag along with a few other persons.
A CBI team on Wednesday started interrogating the principal of Oasis School in Hazaribag, Dr Ehsanul Haque, who was the district coordinator of the NEET-UG exam in Hazaribag. For the last 48 hours, CBI has been questioning the principal of the school, sources said. He was taken to a CBI guest house in Hazaribag along with a few other persons.
The family of Dr Ehsanul Haque has reached the CBI guest house with his clothes. CBI trying to establish the discrepancies that happened on May 3rd when the question papers were being transported, sources added. While distributing NEET UG question papers to students, officials of any exam centre are required to open two aluminium boxes — one manual, and another digital. While the manual is opened using a key and cutter, the digital one unlocks automatically 45 minutes before the examination. However, the digital lock did not open at the Oasis School, which was a NEET UG exam centre and a cutter was used to open the box prior to the exam.
A digital lock on two boxes containing question papers did not open at the Jharkhand exam centre minutes before the exam began at 2 pm and centre officials had to open using a cutter following directions from the NTA. Furthermore, the question papers are enclosed in a seven-layered plastic envelope but according to Bihar’s Economic Offences Unit (EOU), the envelope had a breach at one end and appeared to have been cut, the report added.
Furthermore, a CBI team also visited the main branch of the State Bank of India (SBI) in the Hazaribag district on Wednesday to question the manager. He was reportedly the custodian of the question papers. The bank had reportedly received the question papers sent by a courier service operator in an e-rickshaw, reported PTI.
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