Those arrested were identified as–Pankaj Kumar alias Aditya and Rajkumar Singh alias Raju.
With the arrest of two more persons including a mastermind from Patna and Hazaribagh, CBI on Tuesday claimed that the one of the accused is the key conspirator of NEET-UG paper leak case.
Those arrested were identified as–Pankaj Kumar alias Aditya and Rajkumar Singh alias Raju. Pankaj, a 2017-batch civil engineer from the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Jamshedpur, was arrested from Patna while his aide Raju Singh arrested from Hazaribagh.
CBI officials claimed that Pankaj alias Aditya is bigger player than Rajesh Ranjan alias Rocky who was arrested on July 11 from Dhanbad.
Official familiar with the matter told HT that Pankaj, a resident of Bokaro in Jharkhand, stole the question paper from a National Testing Agency’s (NTA) trunk in Hazaribagh and distributed to other members of the gang. Raju Singh allegedly helped Pankaj in stealing the paper. During interrogation the arrested accused confessed that they committed the crime in order to earn money.