The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday arrested a first year MBBS student (2023 batch) of the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), Ranchi, in the NEET-UG paper leak case.
According to CBI sources, the medical student identified as Surbhi Kumari, a native of Ramgarh district of Jharkhand was first interrogated by the CBI on July 17 and was kept under police custody in Hostel No. 3 of RIMS on Wednesday night. On Thursday, she was called to the CBI office for further interrogation.
CBI sources said that she has been remanded to three-day judicial custody after being produced in a special court in Patna and she is also part of the solvers group and was physically present on May 5 morning at Hazaribagh to solve the papers.
“The student belonged to the 2023 batch and she is now under the custody of the CBI. They initially approached the administration for some initial information from the student and afterwards yesterday they again approached for further investigation in the same and then they proceeded with the custody of the student,” said RIMS public relation officer Dr Rajiv Ranjan.
The arrest coincides with the arrest of four students from AIIMS Patna on Thursday, who are said to be members of the paper solvers gang.
Sources also claimed that the CBI has seized the student's mobile phones, laptops, other electronic gadgets, and documents. She is being considered part of the question solvers gang that solved the 2024 NEET question papers after they were leaked from Hazaribagh in Jharkhand.
The CBI is said to have gathered clues about the medical students arrested from Patna on Thursday. Notably, the CBI arrested five people, including four MBBS students of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Patna, in connection with the NEET-UG question paper leak case.
The AIIMS Patna students have been accused of helping the notorious "solver gang" of Nalanda solve the leaked question papers.
The fifth person arrested in the case has been identified as Surendra Kumar, a native of Hazaribagh.
