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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested  co-conspirator in NEET-UG 'paper leak' case from Dhanbad on Wednesday evening. This the seventh arrest made by the probe body officials in connection with the NEET-UG exam. Earlier, the CBI arrested the owner of a private school in Gujarat, which is the sixth arrest in the case.

Earlier in the day, the Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju claimed that strict action will be taken against the accused who played with the future of students. Addressing a press conference, Kiren Rijiju said that the anti-paper leak law (Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024) came into effect and under that law, strict action would be taken.

"Today, the Prime Minister has written very clearly that strict steps have been taken and will be taken further too. We will take the strictest action against those who play with the future of students and if this happens, we will take more strict steps for that too, the Prime Minister has given assurance and steps are already being taken, in which a law has also been passed. Now under this law, action will be taken further too," Rijiju said addressing a press conference on Wednesday.

The Union Minister slammed the Congress for creating ruckus during PM Modi's speech in Lok Sabha and said that this is the Opposition's tradition of interrupting during the Prime Minister's speech.

The NEET UG examination was conducted by the National Testing Agency on May 5 at 4,750 centres in 571 cities in the country and 14 cities abroad with 23 lakh candidates appearing for the examination.

The results were declared on June 4, which immediately caused a hue and cry with aspirants raising multiple issues. An unprecedented 67 candidates achieved a perfect score of 720 marks out of 720 led to widespread protests in the country.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on June 23 registered a criminal case over the alleged irregularities in the conduct of the NEET-UG and UGC-NET exams by the NTA and formed special teams to probe the matter.