Amid the ongoing investigation in the NEET irregularities case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Sunday arrested the owner of a private school in Gujarat's Godhra on charges of alleged malpractices in the medical entrance examination.
Public prosecutor Rakesh Rathore said that Jay Jalaram School is situated near Godhra in Panchmahal district. The school is owned by Dixit Patel who was arrested in the early hours on June 30 from his residence. He further added that Patel was being taken to Ahmedabad by the CBI to acquire his remand.
The public prosecutor said, "As the case has been handed over to the CBI by the Gujarat government, a CBI team will produce him (Dixit Patel) before a designated court in Ahmedabad to acquire his remand."
Jay Jalaram School was one of the designated centres where the NEET-UG exam was held on May 5. With Patel’s arrest, the CBI has apprehended six persons in this case. The accused had allegedly demanded Rs 10 lakh from candidates to help them in clearing the test.
Principal and Vice-Principal of Oasis school arrested
Earlier on June 29, the CBI conducted searches at seven locations in Gujarat. The CBI officials had said the operation began in the morning at the premises of the suspects. The locations were spread across four districts -- Anand, Kheda, Ahmedabad and Godhra. Jamaluddin Ansari, the journalist, was also been arrested for allegedly trying to help the principal and the vice-principal, the officials said on Saturday.
On Friday, the CBI arrested the principal and the vice-principal of Oasis School in Jharkhand's Hazaribagh in connection with the NEET-UG paper leak. Ehsanul Haque, the principal of Oasis School, was made the city coordinator of Hazaribagh for the medical entrance exam conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) on May 5, they said.
Vice-principal Imtiaz Alam was designated as the NTA's observer and the centre coordinator for Oasis School, the officials said, adding that the CBI was also questioning five more people from the district in connection with the leak. The CBI has registered six FIRs in the NEET-UG paper leak case, which include its own FIR on a reference from the Union education ministry and five from the states where it took over the investigation. The probe agency has taken over one case each in Bihar and Gujarat and three in Rajasthan.
(With PTI inputs)
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