Akshata Sharma
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The Bihar government's communication to the Centre that its probe "clearly suggests a paper leak" in the NEETUG exam is based on the fact that its EOU is said to have matched 68 questions (of the estimated 200) retrieved from the burnt remains of a purported photocopy of the question paper with the original one that the NTA shared with the EOU five days ago, The Indian Express has learned.
The EOU's report states that the unique exam centre code, of a school that were recovered from scraps of burnt paper, which Bihar Police seized from the house where the arrested candidates were staying, is of Oasis School, a CBSE-affiliated private school that was NTA's designated exam centre in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand.
The EOU took help of a forensics laboratory to match the burnt scraps with the original paper and its questions. It was based on EOU report that the Education Ministry decided to handover the investigation in the matter to CBI.
What reinforces Bihar's claim of a paper leak is the fact that, apart from the 68 questions being exactly the same as the original, the serial numbers of these questions on the burnt scraps and the original paper are also identical.
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