Six persons have been detained from Jharkhand's Deoghar district as Bihar Police expanded its investigation into the alleged irregularities in medical entrance examination NEET.
The youths were detained from a house near AIIMS-Deoghar in Devipur police station area on Friday night.
The suspects have been identified as Paramjit Singh alias Bittu, Chintu alias Baldev Kumar, Kaju alias Prashant Kumar, Ajit Kumar, Rajiv Kumar alias Karu, all residents of Nalanda district of Bihar, and Panku Kumar, according to a statement issued by the Deoghar Police.
They have been brought to Bihar for further questioning, police said.
The National Testing Agency conducted the NEET-UG exam on May 5 and declared the results on June 4. However, a major controversy erupted after allegations of question paper leaks in states such as Bihar.
The Bihar Police's Economic Offences Unit on Saturday claimed to have obtained reference question papers of the test. They are now planning to compare these with documents recovered from a flat in Patna during a search operation last month.
The EOU is also exploring the possibility of conducting narco analysis and brain mapping tests of some arrested accused in the case, PTI reported quoting state police sources.
The sources further told the news agency that the Enforcement Directorate might investigate the money laundering aspect of the alleged irregularities in the examination.
The central agency is expected to identify proceeds of crime and initiate proceedings to attach properties belonging to the accused or suspects, they said.
