The Supreme Court has rejected the demand for re-conducting the medical entrance exam and has made it clear that NEET-UG will not be cancelled. The court also admitted that the paper was leaked in Hazaribagh in Jharkhand and Patna in Bihar, but it has no effect on the overall result. The court said that 155 students have benefited from the paper leak in Hazaribagh and Patna. At present, after the court’s decision, this entire controversy has come to an end. Let us know how a CBI officer told the Supreme Court the whole story of the distribution of NEET papers in Patna-Hazaribagh and the investigating agency claimed that this irregularity was limited only to the local level.
In fact, the central government had ordered a CBI inquiry into the NEET-UG paper leak case. The CBI investigated the connections of this entire case and established links between them. After that, the suspects were taken into custody. During interrogation, information about large-scale irregularities was received. Arrests were made in quick succession. CBI teams camped from Patna to Ranchi and kept collecting evidence so that it could be proved in court that who are the characters in this entire division and how the entire conspiracy of paper leak was hatched. How was the paper leaked? The additional director of CBI gave full information to the Supreme Court on Tuesday. He appeared before the court and told about the incidents that how according to the investigating agency, the paper leak in NEET-UG exam was carried out in Patna and Hazaribagh.
The CBI additional director told the bench how the investigating agency recovered the burnt question paper pieces in Patna and based on the unique serial number on the paper, found that it belonged to a student from Hazaribagh. Know what else the CBI officer has told the Supreme Court…
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– A serial number was written on the half burnt paper. This was a unique number, which according to NTA belonged to Oasis School.
– CBI went to Oasis School in Hazaribagh and asked them which students were given this paper. The agency was informed that during the examination this paper was given to the ‘real candidate’ (girl).
– However this is the paper which is first photographed and then put back in the envelope and then given to the actual candidate in the exam as usual.
– The girl candidate saw that the seal of the question paper was broken, but she did not complain to the invigilator, instead she told the CBI that she had received the paper in the same condition. According to the CBI, this proves that the paper was tampered with.
-The investigating agency found pieces of paper in a school in Patna. About 25 students had come to this centre to take the exam. These students were given solved papers.
– The original paper was not taken out, it was kept back, but its printouts were taken and distributed among the students. One paper was given to 2-3 students. Everyone sat down and memorized it and then put all the printout papers together and burnt them.
– The girl candidate was in Oasis School, whose centre was Hazaribagh and this serial number was allotted to the centre of Oasis School. Since there were 24 lakh students in the exam, NTA gave 24 lakh unique serial numbers. Therefore, no two candidates in the country will get the same serial number.
– The entire irregularity took place at Oasis School in Hazaribagh, but it is linked to Patna.
– Question papers were solved at both the places. There were 2 groups of candidates. One group was in Hazaribagh, where the question paper was being solved on the other floor of Oasis School.
– There were female candidates on the first floor, male candidates on the second floor and 7-8 solvers on the third floor. Neither the candidates nor the solvers were allowed to take their mobile phones to that place.
– After the paper was solved, its digital image was taken and sent to Patna, where a member of the gang was present.
– The supervisor and the centre superintendent have to sign on the packet containing the question paper and state that when they opened the packet, it was not tampered with.
– In this entire mess, even though the question paper was tampered with where the packet was burnt from one side and a paper was removed and then fixed again. Still the centre superintendent and city coordinator signed, they were also part of the conspiracy. There is another middleman who was acting as a bridge between the gang and the students.
– This entire conspiracy was hatched about 2-3 months ago. Because they had to identify a center that would be ready to be a part of this entire plan.
– The money is not collected in one installment. A token advance is taken initially so that the candidate is allowed to reach the particular location where they are going to deliver the solved paper.
– What the agency has found so far is that there were two places in Hazaribagh where the question papers were shared after being solved. There was one place in Patna where it was shared after being solved.
– In that group in Patna, there was a sub-group of 6 female candidates who had come on the 4th itself. They did not want to keep the boys and girls under the same roof, so they kept them at the house of one of the accused for the night.
– The next day when this question paper was stolen once, it was photographed. It came to the solvers. They solved it. Then a scanned copy was prepared, which was sent to Patna via WhatsApp and about 15 copies of each set were printed.
– Botany-Geology set came first at around 10:15. Physics-Chemistry set came at around 10:30-10:40. They took the printout and made 2-3 groups of candidates and gave one copy. Since the girls were in another house, one copy was sent to that house.
– Some gadgets were destroyed by the accused. Some were recovered by the CBI. They belonged to the same group, but it will be known from the FSL report whether the same gadgets were used for this as well. As per the investigation, the main core group destroyed the mobile phones after the crime.
– CBI has CCTV footage of the arrested main accused reaching the control room of Oasis Centre. According to CCTV, this footage is from the morning of 5th. There is footage of the main accused entering the control room and exiting the room where the trunks were kept.
– There are 2 doors in the control room. The front door was locked in front of everyone and the key was with the center superintendent, but the bolt inside the back door was deliberately kept open by the superintendent and the city coordinator as part of a conspiracy.
– The said accused was sitting in the staff room, whose door is adjacent to the back door of the control room. It is barely two steps away. At around 7:53 pm the door was closed. Everyone went to inspect the examination hall etc.
– The question papers are packed in 7 layers. Individual question papers come in packets, which are put in a trunk with 2 locks, which is again put in a box.
– The accused had a complete tool kit bag, which was already kept in the control room by the centre superintendent involved in the conspiracy. The accused had given him the tool kit 2 days ago.
Based on the claims of the investigating agency, the Central Government and the National Testing Agency made strong arguments in the Supreme Court. The government said that the paper leak was limited to the local level. Those who took advantage of it have also not appeared anywhere in the merit list. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said, after investigation, the burnt question papers we found had the unique code of the students. We have CCTV footage of Oasis School. At 8:02 am a person enters the trunk. He gives the question paper to the solver. There were 8 solvers present there. Each gets 25 questions. They do not keep mobiles. Because they do not want it to reach those who have not paid the money. The government said that a burnt piece of a question paper was found and this question paper was of a girl candidate. The question paper of that girl was tampered with. She later complained that her question paper was tampered with.
Know how the hearing went on in the Supreme Court…
– Chief Justice: If you re-seal any plastic with a lighter, it will obviously have burn marks on it. Also, when the accused had hatched a conspiracy at some level many months ago, how did they focus it on such a small area? Human nature is to make more profits. We know that the paper was leaked at one place. It started from Hazaribagh. The WhatsApp message was sent to Patna. We are still not sure what was the time of the leak and is there any forensic data that can show where all the messages were sent?
Chief Justice: Has any mobile been seized?
NTA: We will have to do a forensic examination of them. The FSL report will reveal whether he went to Patna or not.
Chief Justice: Yesterday I was reading somewhere that mobiles were thrown into a river.
SG: Yes, we have recovered it.
Chief Justice: Earlier we thought that the solver was given 45 minutes. But here it can happen with the solver at 8:30 in the morning.
NTA: The solver’s statement is that the papers were sent to him at 9:24 am.
Chief Justice: But the phone of the main conspirator has not been found, so that this can be confirmed.
Chief Justice: Who was in possession of the lock of the control room?
NTA: There were two doors. One door was closed in front of everyone and the key was given to the centre superintendent. The back door was deliberately kept open. At 7:53 am the main door was closed and at 8:02 am the person entered through the back door and they left the control room at 9:23 am.
Chief Justice: This means those people remained inside for one and a half hours.
NTA: The examination papers were kept in seven layers.
Justice Pardiwala asked about the security around the control room?
SG Mehta: The question before the court is whether, without any concrete evidence, on the basis of mere suspicion, 23 lakh students will be forced to be painted in the same colour?
Petitioner’s counsel Narinder Hooda: The prime accused Sanjeev Mukhiya is also accused of being a gangster. He has not been caught yet. He was involved in paper leak in other states as well. The paper has been leaked. Through WhatsApp and the gang working in different states and centers say that the beneficiaries are in Hazaribagh and Patna only because it has been said in the statements of the accused. CBI is not a novice agency. How will it accept such statements that the leak has not happened beyond Patna and Hazaribagh. With what confidence is the SG saying that this is a local matter. If Sanjeev Mukhiya is arrested tomorrow and he says that he has sent it to 200 more places, will the court order not to investigate again?
Chief Justice: But can the court order a reinvestigation? Because the investigation is not yet complete. The leak may not be limited to just two places. We are looking at the matter of 23 lakh students. But at the same time, we cannot say today at any level prima facie that the leak has not happened beyond Patna and Hazaribagh.
Hooda: The whole world is seeing that the paper has been leaked. Mobiles have not been found. The sanctity of the exam has ended, but only statistics are being presented in this court. NEET is going through a situation of multi-organ failure. It has to go.
All the candidates should have had an Aadhaar card. Why was Aadhaar not asked for changing the exam centre? The sanctity of this entire exam has been lost and it should be conducted again.
SC Bench: Has any expert committee been formed regarding NEET?
SG: A seven-member committee has been formed under the leadership of ISRO Chairman K S Radhakrishnan.