NEET: Cheating cases are also linked to Gujarat, cheques worth crores recovered
#News Bureau June 16,2024
The strings of NEET exam scam have now been linked to Gujarat as well. Five people, including the school principal of Jalaram School in Godhra city of Panchmahal district of Gujarat, have been arrested for allegedly trying to help students pass the NEET-UG exam. The exam was held on May 5. The police have named it Pay for Pass.
This case has come to light at a time when there are allegations of rigging and paper leak in the NEET UG exam. From Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to every leader of the Modi government is adamant that neither the paper of the NEET exam was leaked nor any irregularities have come to the fore. The National Testing Agency (NTA) is also constantly denying the rigging.
Following the arrest of the school principal and teacher, the police arrested Rai and seized eight blank cheques and another set of cheques amounting to Rs 2.30 crore from him. The SP said many of the cheques had signatures of parents whose children had appeared for the NEET-UG exam at Jalaram School.
According to the police, Rai introduced the students going to take the NEET exam to Bhatt, who was a physics teacher in the school and a deputy superintendent for the exam appointed by the National Testing Agency (NTA). That is, the person on whom the NTA had put the responsibility of conducting the exam was involved in this alleged scam. It is being said that Purushottam Sharma and Tushar Bhatt were widely publicized among the students taking the NEET exam that one can get 100% marks if one takes the NEET exam through these two.