NEW DELHI: As part of its ongoing investigation into the alleged irregularities in the National-Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test – Undergraduate (NEET-UG) paper leak, officials in the CBI on Saturday said that a journalist was arrested in connection with the case in Jharkhand and searches were conducted at multiple locations in Gujarat.The officials identified the arrested journalist as Jamaluddin Ansari and he was arrested from Hazaribagh district in Jharkhand.CBI had yesterday arrested principal and vice principal Ehsanul Haque and Imtiaz Alam respectively of Oasis School in the Hazaribagh district of Jharkhand and the investigators are believed to have zeroed in on the origin of the leak. Haque was made the city coordinator of Hazaribagh for the medical entrance exam conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) on May 5, they said. 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.Jamaluddin, the journalist, was arrested, as he was allegedly found assisting the principal and the vice-principal, the officials said.Meanwhile, the investigating teams of the CBI conducted searches at seven locations in Gujarat in connection with its probe into the matter, officials here at the agency’s headquarters said. The search operation began in the morning at the premises of suspects spread across four districts — Anand, Kheda, Ahmedabad and Godhra, they added.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.NEET-UG is conducted by the NTA for admissions to MBBS, BDS, AYUSH and other related courses in government and private institutions.This year’s exam was conducted on May 5 at 4,750 centres in 571 cities, including 14 abroad. More than 23 lakh candidates had appeared for the test.
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