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Time of India
06-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Watch: BPSC aspirants lathi-charged outside Bihar CM Nitish Kumar's home in Patna
Police baton-charging BPSC aspirants 'Govt's fashion to protect criminals and lathi-charges students': Tejashwi Yadav NEW DELHI: Police in Bihar's Patna on Tuesday lathi-charged aspirants holding a sit-in protest for the release of supplementary results of the Teacher Recruitment Exam (TRE-3).Carrying placards, a large number of protesters sat outside Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar's official residence, a high-security zone where no demonstration is allowed. They raised slogans against the state government and the Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC), which conducted the requested the protesters to disperse and resorted to lathi-charge when they refused, news agency PTI alleged several persons were injured in the police action. However, officials denied this Dutta, one of the candidates, said they had been protesting for the past four months."We have approached everybody, from ministers to secretaries and MLAs but none provided us with any solution," Dutta was quoted as saying."The education minister had assured us that a letter had been sent to BPSC regarding the issue. But nothing has been done so far," another candidate conducted TRE-3 in March 2024 for 87,774 posts. However, only around 51,000 candidates have received their appointment letters so leader Tejashwi Yadav condemned the lathi-charge and expressed his solidarity with the protesting a post on X, Yadav wrote, "We condemn police action on protesters today. When the youth demand justice, their voice is ruthlessly crushed... it has become the fashion of the NDA governments at the Centre and the state to crush the voice of the youth.""Students were protesting in a democratic manner today. This incompetent government nurtures and protects criminals and the corrupt, while it unleashes lathi charges on students, youths, and the unemployed. This is the time... people of the state should unite to change this incompetent government in the coming assembly polls in the state," he will go to polls later this year.
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Business Standard
06-05-2025
- Politics
- Business Standard
Teacher exam aspirants protest near Bihar CM's home, police disperse crowd
Chaos erupted near the official residence of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in Patna on Tuesday when police baton-charged aspirants who had staged a sit-in demanding the release of supplementary results of a teacher recruitment exam. The demonstrators, demanding the release of the Teacher Recruitment Exam (TRE-3) supplementary result, staged the demonstration outside the gates of the CM's residence on 1 Anne Marg. The entire area is a high-security zone and no such protest is allowed. A large number of protesters, carrying placards, raised slogans against the state government and the Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC), which conducted the exam. Anu Kumari, Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO), Sachiwalay-1, requested the protesters to immediately vacate the area as such activities are restricted there. When the protesters refused to budge, police resorted to baton-charge to disperse the aspirants. The SDPO, however, refused to speak to reporters. Protesters claimed that several persons were injured in the baton-charge, which the officials denied. One of the protesting candidates, Kriti Dutta, said they have been protesting in Gardanibagh area for the last four months. "We have approached everybody, from ministers to secretaries and MLAs but none provided us with any solution," she said. Another candidate said that the education minister had assured them that a letter had been sent to BPSC regarding the issue but nothing has been done so far. Despite repeated attempts, neither Patna District Magistrate Chandrashekhar Singh nor Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Awakash Kumar were available for their comments on the incident and how the protesters managed to enter the high-security zone. BPSC conducted the teacher recruitment exam in March 2024 and a total of 87,774 posts were announced under TRE-3. However, only around 51,000 candidates have received appointment letters so far. The authorities had earlier promised a supplementary result, but nothing has happened so far.
Hindustan Times
06-05-2025
- Politics
- Hindustan Times
Teacher recruitment exam aspirants protest near Bihar CM's residence; police resort to lathi-charge
Patna, Chaos erupted near the official residence of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in Patna on Tuesday when police baton-charged aspirants who had staged a sit-in demanding the release of supplementary results of a teacher recruitment exam. The demonstrators, demanding the release of the Teacher Recruitment Exam supplementary result, staged the demonstration outside the gates of the CM's residence on 1 Anne Marg. The entire area is a high-security zone and no such protest is allowed. A large number of protesters, carrying placards, raised slogans against the state government and the Bihar Public Service Commission , which conducted the exam. Anu Kumari, Sub-Divisional Police Officer , Sachiwalay-1, requested the protesters to immediately vacate the area as such activities are restricted there. When the protesters refused to budge, police resorted to baton-charge to disperse the aspirants. The SDPO, however, refused to speak to reporters. Protesters claimed that several persons were injured in the baton-charge, which the officials denied. One of the protesting candidates, Kriti Dutta, said they have been protesting in Gardanibagh area for the last four months. "We have approached everybody, from ministers to secretaries and MLAs but none provided us with any solution," she said. Another candidate said that the education minister had assured them that a letter had been sent to BPSC regarding the issue but nothing has been done so far. Despite repeated attempts, neither Patna District Magistrate Chandrashekhar Singh nor Senior Superintendent of Police Awakash Kumar were available for their comments on the incident and how the protesters managed to enter the high-security zone. BPSC conducted the teacher recruitment exam in March 2024 and a total of 87,774 posts were announced under TRE-3. However, only around 51,000 candidates have received appointment letters so far. The authorities had earlier promised a supplementary result, but nothing has happened so far.
NDTV
05-05-2025
- NDTV
Fraudster Sells "Question Paper" Ahead Of NEET Exam In Bihar, Arrested
Patna: The police arrested a person from Bihar's Araria district for his alleged involvement in duping medical aspirants ahead of the NEET-UG held on May four across the country. The arrested fraudster was accused of providing the "question paper" of the exam to the aspirants in exchange for money, the police said on Monday. The sleuths of the Economic Offences Unit (EOU) and Araria Police picked up the accused on May 3. "Acting on a tip-off that a group of fraudsters were allegedly taking money from NEET aspirants, falsely promising them to provide question paper ahead of the exam, EOU alerted its cyber unit in Araria and the district police. A team was formed and SK Faiz was arrested for duping medical aspirants," the EOU said in a statement. Investigations also revealed that the accused defrauded students and got money transferred to his account from them, it said. Further investigation is on, it added. The Bhar police had warned aspirants and parents against phone calls made by cyber fraudsters luring them to provide question papers ahead of the NEET-UG exam. The EOU last month arrested Sanjeev Kumar Singh alias Sanjeev Mukhiya, the alleged mastermind of the NEET (UG)-24 paper leak case from Patna. He was also wanted in connection with his alleged involvement in the paper leak case of the Bihar Public Service Commission Teacher Recruitment Exam (TRE-3) held in March 2024. According to officials, Mukhiya's gang is spread across Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan and it was behind paper leaks in several recruitment exams in several states.
Indian Express
26-04-2025
- Indian Express
‘Identified desperate parents, charged Rs 8-15 lakh per candidate': Who is NEET paper leak ‘mastermind' Sanjeev Mukhiya?
In the early hours of Friday, a midnight operation in an apartment in Patna's Danapur ended an 11-month manhunt for a 51-year-old Nalanda resident, who carried a Rs 3 lakh bounty and faces charges in at least four examination scams across multiple states. A joint team of personnel from the Special Operations Group (SOG) of Bihar's Economic Offences Unit (EOU) and Patna's Special Task Force raided an apartment near Saguna More, arresting Sanjeev Mukhiya, the alleged mastermind behind the undergraduate medical entrance exam, NEET-UG 2024. 'He was constantly on the move, slipping between states and borders, from Uttar Pradesh to Nepal,' Nayyar Husnain Khan, Additional Director General of the EOU told The Indian Express. 'Several police units were tracking him for a long time,' the officer said. 'Yesterday (Thursday), inputs placed him near Saguna More and Danapur police station.' Following the tip-off, EOU teams tracked movements in the area and narrowed down the apartment building. The officer said, 'After verifying his presence in a specific building, we coordinated with Patna's Senior Superintendent of Police, and with Danapur police's support, Sanjeev Mukhiya was arrested during a raid between 1 and 1.30 am.' Initial findings suggested that Mukhiya was 'visiting a woman renter' in the apartment, ADG Khan said. 'We're investigating her identity, connection, and any case involvement.' Mukhiya was interrogated by the EOU and CBI on Friday. Mukhiya, a technical assistant at Udyan Vidyalaya in Nalanda's Noorsarai, allegedly orchestrated what the EOU calls an 'organised and professional' interstate solver gang. 'He exploited every layer of the examination system,' Khan said, detailing how Mukhiya allegedly executed the NEET-UG leak. 'He identified desperate parents with funds to secure their children's futures, and charged anywhere between Rs 8-15 lakh per candidate, even higher in some cases,' the officer said. Mukhiya allegedly manipulated vulnerabilities at every stage of the exam machinery, the ADG said, from printing presses to transportation to centres. 'In Hazaribagh, he arranged for question paper photos to be extracted with coordination from insiders.' Mukhiya then allegedly 'summoned candidates to guest houses, locked them in overnight, and told them to memorise answers,' the ADG revealed. 'No physical copies were given to avoid traces.' The next morning, candidates were allegedly 'dropped at exam centres', armed with illicit knowledge. Scam unravels The scam was unravelled on May 5, 2024, when Patna police detected irregularities during the NEET-UG exam. On June 23, 2024, the case was transferred to the CBI, which named Mukhiya as the 'kingpin'. The case mentioned eight accused, including Mukhiya, middlemen Nitish Kumar and Amit Anand from Munger, and Sikandar Yadavendu, a junior engineer. The gang's reach extended beyond NEET, with involvement in leaks for Bihar's Teacher Recruitment Exam (TRE-3) in March 2024 to the Uttar Pradesh Constable Recruitment Exam, and recruitment tests for veterinary doctors and English teachers in Haryana, officials alleged. According to ADG Khan, this isn't Mukhiya's first brush with the law. In 2010, he was linked to exam cheating using Bluetooth devices in Bihar. In 2016, Uttarakhand Police arrested him for a constable recruitment exam leak, and around the same period, Bihar Police detained him for a block-level exam scam targeting SC/ST candidates. 'Despite jail time, he resumed his illicit trade. He found loopholes in the system and figured out how to exploit them,' Khan noted. The EOU had earlier arrested five members of Mukhiya's gang — Paramjit Singh, Baldev Kumar, Prashant Kumar, Ajit Kumar, and Rajiv Kumar — in Jharkhand's Deoghar, on June 21, 2024. Baldev allegedly received a PDF of the leaked NEET-UG paper on May 5, 2024. Patna police also nabbed 13 others, including students, parents, and middlemen. According to police, the gang operated across Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, and beyond, with Mukhiya allegedly paying salaries and providing two-wheelers to aides. A disproportionate assets case was filed against him on October 23, 2024, after raids on four of his properties uncovered property documents, vehicles, bank deposits, and gold and silver jewellery far exceeding his known income as a technical assistant. Origins of a paper leak 'kingpin' Mukhiya's criminal roots trace back to the 1990s, when he worked under Ranjeet Don, a notorious paper leak figure from Hilsa, Nalanda. Don, who allegedly 'purchased' an MBBS degree from Darbhanga Medical College and was arrested in 2003 for leaking the Common Admission Test (CAT) papers, mentored Mukhiya before he built his own network. Mukhiya's son, Dr Shiv Kumar, an MBBS graduate from Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH), was arrested in 2024 for the TRE-3 leak. His wife, Mamata Devi, served as mukhiya of Bhutaha Khar Panchayat from 2016 to 2021. This was what got Sanjeev the moniker, 'Mukhiya'. A former Janata Dal (United) member, Mamata Devi contested the 2020 Bihar Assembly election from Harnaut on a Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) ticket, losing to JD(U)'s Hari Narayan Singh.
