NEET 2024 Controversy: CBI Visits Gujarat Schools to Probe Into Exam Irregularities

The CBI team investigating NEET 2024 controversies reached Gujarat on Wednesday. The team visited two schools in Kheda and Panchmahal districts to probe into NEET 2024 exam day irregularities. Incidentally, both schools are owned by the same person. Know the details here.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team on Wednesday visited two schools in Gujarat to investigate alleged irregularities in the NEET 2024 exam. The CBI team first visited Jay Jalaram International School in the Kheda district. It was one of the NEET 2024 exam centres on the test dated May 5, 2024.

According to the school owner Dixit Patel, the CBI team visited the classrooms where the NEET 2024 exam was conducted. They took photographs and examined the CCTV camera angles.

After that, the team visited Jay Jalaram School near Godhra town of Panchmahal district, which was also a NEET 2024 exam centre in Gujarat. Both the schools are owned by Patel and are located 100 km apart.

According to a PTI report, a case was registered by Godhra Police on May 8 against three people, who were involved in criminal conspiracy, cheating and criminal breach of trust, for allegedly trying to help 27 candidates crack NEET 2024 in lieu of paying INR 10 lakh each.

On June 23, the CBI filed fresh FIRs against unidentified persons. The Gujarat Police have so far arrested five people, including the principal and a teacher of a school in Godhra which served as NEET 2024 exam centre.

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The arrested persons are physics teacher Tushar Bhatt, school principal Parshottam Sharma, Vadodara-based education consultant Parsuram Roy, his aide Vibhor Anand and alleged middleman Arif Vohra.

INR 7 lakh in cash was recovered from Bhatt, who was appointed the deputy centre superintendent for NEET in the city. Candidates who had paid the amount to the accused were told to mark the answers they knew and keep the rest of the spaces blank, which would be filled by Bhatt after candidates’ NEET 2024 OMR sheets were submitted.

Ever since the CBI was assigned the case of NEET 2024, it has taken over the investigations from the State Police of Bihar, Gujarat and Rajasthan.

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