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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) connected Sunday arrested Dixit Patel, proprietor of a backstage schoolhouse successful Gujarat’s Godhra, for alleged malpractices successful the NEET-UG 2024 exam.
Patel was arrested successful the aboriginal hours of Sunday from his residence successful Panchmahal district, said nationalist authoritative Rakesh Thakor adding that adding that the cardinal probe bureau was taking him to Ahmedabad to question his remand.
"As the lawsuit has been handed implicit to the CBI by the Gujarat government, a CBI squad volition nutrient him (Dixit Patel) earlier a designated tribunal successful Ahmedabad to get his remand," PTI quoted nationalist authoritative Thakor arsenic saying.
Jay Jalaram School was 1 of the designated centres wherever the NEET-UG exam was held connected May 5. It has been alleged that the schoolhouse was the epicentre of alleged malpractices and fraud successful transportation with the exam.
Patel is the sixth idiosyncratic to beryllium arrested successful this lawsuit wherein the accused had allegedly demanded ₹10 lakh each from astatine slightest 27 candidates to assistance them wide the test.
The different 5 persons, who were arrested earlier by the Panchmahal police, see Vadodara-based acquisition advisor Parshuram Roy, Jay Jalaram School main Purushottam Sharma, schoolhouse teacher Tushar Bhatt, and alleged middlemen Vibhor Anand and Arif Vohra.
After taking implicit the probe a week back, the CBI had sought custody of 4 accused but Roy. On Saturday, the Godhra territory tribunal remanded Sharma, Bhatt, Anand, and Vohra to CBI's custody till July 2.
A preliminary probe by the CBI has uncovered that the accused persons had asked candidates consenting to follow amerciable means to get precocious scores successful the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET-Under Graduate) to opt for Jay Jalaram School arsenic the exam centre.
As per Gujarat Police, the accused persons allegedly asked the candidates not to effort a question if they did not cognize the answer.
Prima facie, Bhatt, a physics teacher, filled the close answers connected the papers portion they were inactive astatine the schoolhouse premises post-exam.
The CBI connected Saturday raided 7 locations successful Gujarat, further intensifying their probe into the alleged NEET malpractices. Statements from six candidates who allegedly paid bribes were recorded past week, linking them to the accused.
A lawsuit was registered by Godhra Police connected May 8 against Bhatt, Roy, and Vohra for attempting to manipulate the NEET-UG process by extorting ₹10 lakh from 27 candidates each. Authorities, who were tipped disconnected astir imaginable malpractice, preemptively intervened astatine the school, averting irregularities.
Bhatt, appointed arsenic the exam's lawman superintendent astatine the schoolhouse centre, was apprehended earlier the test, and ₹7 lakh successful currency was seized from him.
The probe showed that Roy had allegedly convinced astatine slightest 27 of his students that helium could assistance them wide the exam for ₹10 lakh. In a consequent raid, cheques amounting to ₹2.30 crore were discovered successful Roy's office.
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