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New Delhi: Students are protesting across the country over the allegations of irregularities in NEET-UG 2024. While several petitions have been filed in the Supreme Court on this issue, finally the Ministry of Education has handed over the case to the CBI to investigate the irregularities. The CBI has started the investigation by registering an FIR and has sent its teams to Bihar, Gujarat. However, the villagers pelted stones and beat up the CBI team that reached Nawada in Bihar, considering it to be fake.
Based on a written complaint from the Director of the Ministry of Education, the CBI has started an investigation into the irregularities in NEET-UG 2024. The FIR alleged that the NEET (UG) 2024 exam was conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) on May 5 at 4,750 centers in 571 cities, including 14 cities abroad. More than 24 lakh candidates appeared in this exam.
After the Ministry of Education handed over the comprehensive investigation of the alleged irregularities in NEET-UG to the CBI, the central investigating agency has started proceedings. The CBI will take over the FIRs registered in the states for a comprehensive investigation into the alleged scam, under which the CBI has sent its teams to Bihar and Gujarat. According to sources, the Union Education Ministry has admitted that there were irregularities, cheating and other irregularities in the examination held on May 5.
Local police have arrested several people from Bihar, Jharkhand, Gujarat and Maharashtra in connection with irregularities including paper leak in NEET-UG 2024. Out of the 13 people arrested by Bihar Police, Sikandar Yadavendu had given NEET paper to several people in Ranchi. He admitted that he had sold the NEET-UG 2024 paper to more than 30 students for Rs 30-40 lakh.
In this alleged nationwide scam, after Bihar, Gujarat, Jharkhand, now in Maharashtra too, ATS has detained and questioned two school teachers. Both the teachers have been identified as Sanjay Tukaram and Jalil Umarkhan Pathan.
The Education Ministry has also asked to investigate the role of public servants involved in this competitive examination in the medical field.
Meanwhile, in the UGC NET paper leak case, the CBI team reached Rajauli in Bihar's Nawada district from Delhi on the basis of mobile location. But, the people of Kasiyadih village mistook them for a fake CBI team and started beating them and vandalizing vehicles. The CBI investigation team comprised four officers including a woman constable of the local police. After the beating incident, the CBI team seized two mobile phones on the basis of the location of the mobile number.
The police have arrested four people including a woman in this case. Apart from this, an FIR has been lodged in Rajauli police station against 8 named people and 150 to 200 unknown people.
– Center denies reports of NTA website being hacked
News has surfaced on social media that the website of the National Testing Agency (NTA), which conducts competitive examinations like NEET, JEE, has been hacked.
However, NTA officials denied these claims on Sunday. They say that their website and all other web portals are extremely secure. The news of it being hacked is false and misleading.
Students need not panic. NTA is currently embroiled in controversies due to paper leaks of NEET-UG, NET and others.
– NEET-UG re-examination at seven centers in the country
– Results of 67 students were withheld due to fear of tampering, grace mark system will be abolished: Dharmendra Pradhan
Out of 1563 students who got grace marks, 813 appeared in the exam
New Delhi: A re-examination was conducted on Sunday for 1563 students who got grace marks in NEET-UG 2024, but only 52 per cent of them, i.e. 813, appeared for the re-examination, while some students did not appear for the exam despite this. A special center was set up for them.
A senior official of the National Testing Agency (NTA) said that after the examination started on May 5, grace marks were given to 1,563 students due to loss of time at six centers. But after a controversy arose over this, the grace marks were canceled after the order of the Supreme Court and the examination was conducted again for them on Sunday. However, students did not appear for the examination at some centers. 185 students were to appear at an examination center in Balod, Chhattisgarh, but 70 students were absent. At the same time, an examination center was made for only two students in Chandigarh, but both the students did not reach the examination center.
Meanwhile, amid the NEET-UG paper leak controversy, the NTA has withheld the results of 67 students across the country. Quoting Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, sources said that a total of 70 examination centres were set up in Patna, in which 17 students were found cheating in the exam and their results have been withheld.
According to sources, Dharmendra Pradhan said that the demands of the students have been accepted. He demanded action against NTA.
NTA DG Subodh Singh has been transferred. The government heard the complaints of students regarding the irregularities in the NTA system and we have fixed it. There was no provision for the grace mark system, but NTA gave grace marks. This is the main reason for the irregularities. The grace mark system will be abolished.
