Latest News Highlights: CBI team may take those arrested in NEET paper leak case from Patna to Delhi for questioning today (2024)

Congress' student wing National Students' Union of India (NSUI) staged a protest against alleged irregularities in NEET-UG and cancellation of UGC-NET exams at Jantar Mantar on Monday, news agency PTI reported.

The National Students' Union of India (NSUI) planned to take out a march to gherao the Parliament on the day of the commencement of the first session of the 18th Lok Sabha.

However, according to police officials, no such march has been given permission and security arrangements have been made to prevent any attempts. (PTI)

The Opposition INDIA bloc leaders, including Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, held up copies of the Constitution as Prime Minister Narendra Modi went up to take oath as the Leader of the House on the first day of the 18th Lok Sabha session.

Gandhi, speaking to reporters outside the Parliament complex, said, “The attack which the Prime Minister and Amit Shah are afflicting on the Constitution, it is not acceptable. We won’t let that happen. That’s why, we held up the Constitution (book) while he was taking oath. The message that no power can touch the Constitution of India is being conveyed.”

A CBI team from Delhi reached the office of the Economic Offences Unit (EOU) of the Bihar Police in Patna on Monday morning in connection with its investigation into the allegations of irregularities in medical entrance exam NEET-UG, officials told news agency PTI.

"The CBI officers are collecting evidence related to the case from the EOU," an official said.

The CBI is also likely to file multiple FIRs to probe the destruction of evidence, and also register disproportionate assets (DA) cases against some of those accused who are public servants, he said.

"A DA case may be registered against arrested accused Sikander Prasad Yadvendu, a junior engineer in Danapur Town Council, as he reportedly acquired huge assets that are disproportionate to his known source of income," the officer told PTI. (PTI)

According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), conditions are favourable for further advance of Southwest Monsoon into parts of North Arabian Sea and Gujarat,Madhya Pradesh, remaining parts ofChhattisgarh,West Bengal, Jharkhand and Bihar,Uttar Pradeshand Uttarakhand in the next 3-4 days.

Fairly widespread light to moderate rainfall accompanied with thunderstorm, lightning and gusty winds are very likely over Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim today, the forecast stated.

The Opposition parties on Monday shouted 'Shame' ahead of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's oath taking ceremony on the first day of the 18th Lok Sabha session, amid growing tension and dissatisfaction regarding the recent NEET-NTA controversy.

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Sharing his remarks ahead of the first sitting where all 280 new MPs will take oath, Prime Minister said all efforts will be made to move forward with “consensus” to serve the people of the country.

"May it be a productive one… I hope the Opposition fulfills the responsibility as the Opposition and meets their expectations of debate and vigilance as opposed to disturbance and drama."

As the first session of the 18th Lok Sabha commenced today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took oath as the Leader of the House.

Moreover, the seven-term MP Bhartruhari Mahtab who was appointed as the pro-tem Speaker was administered oath by President Droupadi Murmu at the Rashtrapathi Bhavan.

A team of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is expected to visit Patna on Monday, may take those arrested in NEET-UG paper leak case to New Delhi for questioning, news agencyPTIreported.

They are likely to collect evidence from Bihar’s Economic Offences Unit (EOU) in the case, which earlier, found burnt papers with 68 questions matching the ‘original’ exam papers shared by the NTA, according to a report inThe Indian Express.

The Union education ministry’s high-level panel for exam reforms and reviewing functioning of the NTA is also set to meet today.