Pankaj Kumar, a resident of Bokaro in Jharkhand, has been arrested in Patna on charges of stealing the question paper from an NTA (National Testing Agency) trunk in Hazaribagh ahead of the examination held on May 5.Pankaj alias Aditya is a 2017-batch civil engineer from the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Jamshedpur.The second accused, identified as Raju Singh, was arrested from a guest house located at Hazaribagh’s Ramnagar locality under Katkamdag police station. He has been charged with helping Pankaj in the leak of the question paper. Raju Singh is the fourth person arrested from Hazaribagh in Jharkhand in the paper leak case.The federal agency had earlier arrested 14 persons in connection with the case.Sources said that Pankaj Kumar, a civil engineer, stole the question paper.On Thursday last week, the CBI had arrested one of the key accused, Rakesh Ranjan alias Rocky, a native of Nalanda district in Bihar.Rocky has been accused of arranging solvers from Patna and Ranchi for the gang. He is stated to be a trusted member of the kingpin of the gang led by Sanjeev Kumar Singh alias Lutan Mukhiya alias Sanjeev Mukhiya.Before Rocky’s arrest, the CBI had conducted raids at his Nalanda residence, but he was not found. On Friday last week, the Patna High Court granted custody of 13 accused persons, who were arrested earlier by Patna police before the case was handed over to the central probe agency.To date, the CBI has arrested 42 persons from seven states in connection with the paper leak case.
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