Bihar Police Busts NEET UG 2026 Solver Gang in Re-Exam; Over 30 Arrested Including Biometric Staff and Medicos
Just as over two million anxious aspirants sat for the highly scrutinized NEET UG re-examination on Sunday across 5,454 centers, a shocking fraud unfolded in Bihar. The Lakhisarai district police busted a massive “solver gang” operating during the exam, turning the spotlight once again onto the deep-rooted corruption plaguing India’s medical entrance system.
The Lakhisarai Crackdown
Acting on intelligence, authorities conducted simultaneous raids at multiple examination centers, including KRK High School, Kendriya Vidyalaya, and Hasanpur School. The operation successfully dismantled a highly organized cheating racket, leading to the arrest of 30 individuals. The breakdown of the arrests is particularly alarming: police apprehended nine impersonators, one actual candidate, two helpers, and crucially, 18 employees belonging to the biometric company hired for the exam’s security.
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Medicos Turned Masterminds
What has left the medical fraternity completely stunned is the identity of the key players. These were not amateur fraudsters; they were brilliant minds who had already cleared the medical entrance. According to the police, the arrested “solvers” and masterminds included actual medical students:
Mayank Kashyap, a fourth-year student at Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH), was arrested as one of the impersonators. Kashyap allegedly entered the Hasanpur examination center posing as an employee of the biometric company, in connivance with a staff member named Ankit Kumar.
The police have pinned the mastermind of the entire racket on Ravi Shankar, a student from Pavapuri Medical College, and Arpit Raj from ANM Medical College and Hospital in Gaya. Shockingly, records show that Arpit Raj had already been intensely interrogated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) during the original 2024 NEET paper leak scandal, yet he returned to the same illicit trade.
according to police report, other “solvers” arrested include Saurabh Jha, a student from AIIMS Raebareli; Aman Agarwal, an intern at a medical college in Shahdara, Delhi; and Poonam Kumari, a nursing student from Banaras Hindu University (BHU).
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The Multi-Lakh Scam
Sub-divisional police officer Shivam Kumar revealed that the gang’s financial demands were steep. Each candidate was charged between ₹10 lakh to ₹12 lakh for the impersonation service. The network operated on a systematic payment plan, taking an advance of ₹1 lakh to ₹2 lakh upfront, with the remaining balance to be paid only after the student successfully cleared the examination.
The gang’s modus operandi relied heavily on insider collusion. By bribing and working alongside the very personnel tasked with biometric verification, the impersonators easily bypassed security protocols and entered the examination halls in place of genuine candidates. Currently, investigators are heavily scrutinizing bank accounts, mobile call details, and digital transactions to trace further links.
It is deeply disheartening to see senior medical students from top institutions like PMCH renting out their hard earned intellect to a cheating syndicate. When the very people training to protect public health become the architects of systemic fraud, the entire framework collapses. Bypassing biometric security requires insider betrayal, proving our national testing systems aren’t just facing clever thieves – they are dealing with a broken internal compass. We must prosecute these proxy solvers to the absolute limit of the law; a medical degree built on a foundation of bribery is a direct threat to the lives of future patients.
