The National Testing Agency (NTA), which conducts the NEET-UG exam for admission to the medical colleges in the country, declared the centre-wise results on its website on July 20 as per the order of the Supreme Court.

The results, at first glance, are likely to fuel the controversy regarding the paper leak and malpractice allegations further.

At one centre in Rajkot, more than 240 students secured more than 600 marks, and one student got a perfect 720 marks. At Godhra centre, which is on the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)’s radar with a ‘cash for score’ scam, only 14 students secured more than 600 marks. 

The maximum number of students who appeared for the examination at the Unit-I School of Engineering Center of RK University in Rajkot have cleared the NEET-UG. Out of a total of 1,968 students who appeared for the examination at this centre, 85% passed.

At this centre in Rajkot, 12 students have got more than 600 marks while 259 students have got more than 600 marks.

On the other hand, 149 students have got more than 700 marks in Rajasthan’s Sikar.

More than 40 petitions are being heard in the Supreme Court regarding malpractice in NEET-UG examination. The apex court had ordered the NTA to publish the results in an anonymous manner on its website by the afternoon of July 20, possibly before the final hearing on July 22.

Looking at the results of 12 centres out of a total of 21 centres in Ahmedabad city, 41 students have secured more than 700 marks.

12 students secured more than 700 marks from the DPS centre in Ahmedabad. Only 14 students secured more than 600 marks in the controversial Godhra centre.

In Bahadurgarh's Hardayal Public School, only 13 students got more than 600 marks. In Hazaribagh’s Oasis Public School, only 23 students secured more than 600 marks.

Meanwhile, the CBI has made three more arrests in the NEET-UG paper leak case. Among the three arrested, two are medical students from Rajasthan’s Bharatpur Medical College. They were identified as Kumar Manglam Bishnoi and Deepender Kumar, and were working as ‘solvers’.

The third person, identified as Shashikant Paswan, is a B.Tech graduate from the National Institute of Technology (NIIT), Jamshedpur, and is believed to be one of the ‘masterminds’ in the case.

Till now, the CBI has made 21 arrests in the NEET paper leak case.

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