NEW DELHI: The detailed result of the NEET-UG 2024, which was released by the National Testing Agency on Saturday, showed students who appeared at exam centres in Jharkhand, Bihar, Haryana and Gujarat, which are under the CBI scanner over alleged paper leak, barely benefited. As directed by the Supreme Court, the NTA has published Of 701 students who took the exam at the centre, only seven scored above 650 and 28 above 500. Only students who score 650 and above out of 720 have the possibility of getting admission in a government medical college.
The CBI had last month arrested Oasis School’s principal Ehsanul Haque and vice-principal Imtiaz Alam in connection with the paper leak case. The Economic Offence Unit (EOU) of the Bihar Police had found a burnt question paper at a private school’s hostel in Patna. The booklet number on the question paper matched with the ones provided at Oasis School.
Meanwhile, no candidate scored above 682 in the revised results for a centre in Haryana that was under the scanner after six aspirants got 720 out of 720. The scores were revised after a retest was ordered by the Supreme Court following allegations over undue grace marks being awarded.
Only 13 candidates who appeared at Hardayal Public School in Jhajjar, Haryana, managed to score more than 600 marks.
At Jay Jalaram International School and Jay Jalaram School in Gujarat’s Godhra, the two centres which are being probed for changes in OMR sheets, just five students from among 2,516 who took the test, scored 650 or more. Of these students, only 58 got more than 500 marks.
Earlier, the NTA had said eight of the 13 candidates from Patna, who were booked by the Bihar Police for their alleged involvement in a paper leak, scored less than 500 marks. A total of 10,352 students appeared for the exam at 12 centres in Patna which were suspected to have been affected due to paper leak. Of these, only about 4 per cent scored more than 600 marks.
Meanwhile, the CBI arrested Sashikant Paswan, a BTech graduate from NIT-Jamshedpur, and an alleged mastermind in the NEET-UG paper leak case, and two MBBS students from Rajasthan who acted as “solvers”.
The total number of persons arrested so far in six cases related to the alleged irregularities in the NEET-UG has reached 21. The two MBBS students — Kumar Mangalam Bishnoi and Deepender Sharma — were present in Hazaribagh on May 5 and allegedly acted as “solvers” for the paper stolen by Pankaj Kumar, an engineer, who was arrested earlier, officials said.
The CBI has arrested Sashikant Paswan, a BTech graduate from NIT-Jamshedpur and ‘mastermind’ in NEET-UG paper leak case, and two MBBS students from Rajasthan who acted as ‘paper solvers’.