Admit cards and fake OMR sheets of NEET seized in Bihar

Admit cards and fake OMR sheets of NEET seized in Bihar

The Hindu Bureau

PATNA 10.01.2025

The Bihar Police on Thursday found admit cards and fake OMR sheets of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test-Postgraduate in a fire-ravaged hostel room on the Patna Medical College and Hospital campus.

Half-burnt ₹100 and ₹500 notes, coming to ₹2.75 lakh, were recovered from the room gutted on Tuesday night.

Ajay Kumar from Samastipur, who is a postgraduate, was staying in the room. He is suspected of hiring MBBS students and making them impersonate for NEET-PG candidates.

Sources said that on Wednesday, Mr. Kumar reached the hostel with many people and was furious over the damage. Several students and junior doctors have complained that he has forcibly occupied many rooms and does not pay heed to the warnings by the college administration.

“A fire had started in the room of Chanakya Hostel and it was illegally occupied by one Ajay Kumar. The room was not allotted to him, and we have sought a report from the warden of the hostel. We have seized all the documents and have sought a detailed report about every document from the college authority, including the admit cards and other documents,” Sweety Sahrawat, Superintendent of Police (Central), Patna, said.

Asked about cheating in the test or a paper leak, Ms. Sahrawat said: “We cannot say anything at present unless we verify all the documents — whether it is old or for what purpose it was kept inside the room.”

In 2024, a leak of the NEET-UG paper in Bihar led to the arrest of 45 people by the Central Bureau of Investigation.

Bihar was the epicentre of the scam.