The accused in the case — and the role they allegedly played.

A day after the arrest of the principal and vice-principal of a Jharkhand school in connection with an alleged paper leak of this year’s National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (Undergraduate), the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on June 29 arrested a Hazaribagh-based journalist for allegedly helping the two accused. Earlier, the CBI had arrested five members of the “solver gang” based in Nalanda, Bihar. Here’s what is known so far about the accused:

Sanjeev is also accused of leaking other papers. He is more commonly referred to as ‘Sanjeev Mukhiya’, a moniker he got due to his wife Mamata Devi. The mukhiya of Bhuthakhar panchayat in Nalanda between 2016 and 2021, Mamata has been associated with the Janata Dal (United) for nearly a decade.

Baldev Kumar

According to the EOU, Baldev Kumar alias Chintu, a resident of Bihar Sharif, is suspected to be Sanjeev’s key aide. Investigators suspect that Baldev had received a PDF of the solved paper on a mobile phone being used by him late on May 4, the eve of the NEET-UG exam. Investigators suspect the PDF was sent to a number for which his accomplices used forged documents to obtain a SIM card.

Nitish Kumar and Amit Anand