UP Police conduct raids in Patna, Saran to nab kingpin of NEET paper solvers’ gang

PATNA: An Uttar Pradesh police team is camping in Patna to arrest the alleged kingpin of the NEET-UG paper solvers’ gang, identified as Nilesh Singh alias PK. His name figured during the interrogation of the six gang members arrested by the UP police crime branch on Sunday last.
The UP police team carried out raids on different hideouts of PK under Digha police station area in the state capital as well as his ancestral village Sendhwa in Saran district.A suspect having his links with the gang was picked up from Musallahpur under Sultanganj police station area in Patna City.
The residents of Sendhwa told the police that PK used to boast about his flourishing business in and outside Bihar. His neighbours at Digha were taken aback when the police revealed his reality.
A resident of Digha told the police that he had introduced himself as a doctor. Digha police station SHO Rajesh Kumar said, “We are cooperating with the UP police team in the investigation.”
Earlier, a BDS student at BHU, Julie, was arrested from St Francis Xavier School examination centre in Varanasi on the exam day on Sunday for allegedly impersonating as Heena Biswas in the NEET-UG. Her mother, who accompanied at the examination centre, was also arrested. Julie belongs to Vaishanavi Colony near Sandalpur in Patna City.
A fake Aadhaar card, NEET-UG-2021 admit card, photograph, two mobile phones and other documents were recovered from their possession. Later, Julie’s brother Abhay Kumar and Vikas Kumar, a resident of Khagaria district, were arrested for their involvement in the case.