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NEET-UG Paper Leak SC Hearing: Today also, a bench headed by Chief Justice (CJI) Justice DY Chandrachud heard the Supreme Court on paper leak and other issues in NEET-UG examination. During this, the bench asked Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the Central Government, whether the superintendent of the examination center who conspired to leak the paper has been arrested? Responding to this, the Solicitor General said that yes, both those people have been arrested, who had taken money from those who conspired to leak the paper. The SG told that apart from the center superintendent, the city coordinator has also been arrested.
During this, the National Examination Agency (NTA) lawyer told the court that the conspiracy to leak the paper was hatched 2-3 months ago. The NTA lawyer also told the court that a middleman had arranged a meeting of the kingpin of the paper leak gang with these two (center superintendent and city coordinator) and arranged the money transaction. According to the NTA lawyer, the people of the paper leak gang were looking for a weak examination center from where they could carry out the paper leak.
On this, CJI Chandrachud asked, “When they had hatched the conspiracy 2-3 months ago, how can we believe that only 25 people would have benefited from it? Because human greed is to make maximum profit from the conspiracy. It does not seem right that they would have limited themselves to only 25 people?” On this, the Solicitor General said that the total number of such beneficiary candidates was 155.
Actually, the bench was cross examining what was the conspiracy behind the paper leak and who all were involved in it because when the question paper packets are opened at the examination centre, then both the city coordinator and the superintendent of the examination centre sign that the packets have not been tampered with in any way. But in this case, the question papers were torn and pasted later, despite this both had signed the declaration that the question paper had not been tampered with. In return, both had charged a hefty amount from the gang. These papers were leaked from a centre in Hazaribagh and were sent to Patna via WhatsApp.
NTA told the court that the original paper was not found missing from the question paper packet. That is, it was taken out and its printout was taken, after which it was circulated outside. NTA also told the court that after getting that paper solved by an expert, the gang members made the candidates memorize its answers and burnt the paper but one copy of it was left, which has been recovered from the arrested people. Let us tell you that apart from CJI DY Chandrachud, a bench of Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Mishra is hearing this case.
