If the news of female candidates being asked to remove their undergarments before entering the examination hall for National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) made us furious, by afternoon the fear of the authorities came true as ATS arrested five people in Jaipur who had promised students to provide them NEET question papers.

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The arrested people also include one government employee. The gang arrested for cheating those students as the question paper they provided on Saturday for the test that held on Sunday didn’t match with a question that came in the exam.

According to PTI, the members held had promised ten students to provide them with the question paper in return for Rs. 5 lakh from each student. ADG ATS Umesh Mishra told PTI that some of the students had paid part of the money to get hold of the question paper.

Mishra also told that the students who were provided with the paper in Saturday night didn’t match with the actual question paper which again affirms that the paper wasn’t leaked. Additional SP Bajrang Singh, who was the in-charge of the operation, told PTI that the accused were under the ATS radar for the last few days.

The ATS team in Delhi caught Ashok Gupta and Rahul while the Jaipur team detained Vikram Sinha, Vikas Sinha and Bhupendra Sharma. Bhupendra Sharma is a government employee and works with as livestock assistant in the state animal husbandry department.

All five have been arrested under various section of cheating including IPC 420 (cheating), 468 (Forgery for purpose of cheating) among others. They will be produced in a court today.Three students in Jaipur and eight students in Delhi were also questioned by ATS but they were allowed to go after interrogation and not arrested as the paper was not leaked.

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ADG Mishra said that the arrested accused are connected with a gang operating from Bihar. There are few more arrests likely to happen in this case.