Coaching owner bought NEET questions for Rs 5 lakh: CBI
NEW DELHI, July 16: Latur-based coaching centre owner Shivraj Raghunath Motegaonkar, arrested by the CBI in the NEET paper leak case, allegedly paid Rs 5 lakh to procure chemistry questions from P V Kulkarni, who was on the National Testing Agency (NTA) panel that set the questions for the examination, the agency told a special court. The agency alleged on Wednesday that Motegaonkar’s son attended the coaching classes of Kulkarni where the questions were provided. In its response to a bail application filed by Motegaonkar, the agency alleged that he, “in conspiracy with the co-accused, procured NEET (UG) leaked chemistry questions prior to exam, and paid Rs 5 lakh for the same”. The CBI has recovered Motegaonkar’s phone in which 36 images (five duplicate images) containing 132 handwritten questions of chemistry were found, the agency said. It has found that 111 of these questions allegedly match with the questions in the NTA’s master question sets prepared for NEET (UG) 2026, the CBI said in its response. (PTI)
Siblings held for killing man, dismembering body in Thane
THANE, July 16: Two brothers were arrested for allegedly decapitating a 23-year-old man, cutting off his limbs and recording the horrific killing on a mobile phone, a Thane police official said on Thursday. The police official said Aman Mustakeen Shaikh, a resident of Mumbra, was abducted allegedly by Faiz Sultan Malim (24) and his brother Alban Sultan Malim (23), both auto-rickshaw drivers residing in the Shil Daighar area, on March 13. “They slit Shaikh’s throat with a sharp knife and, in a bid to conceal his identity, severed his head and both hands before dumping the body parts at a secluded spot in Khardigaon. The accused also filmed the act on a mobile phone,” the official said. A probe began after a case was registered at Mumbra police station under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections, he said. (PTI)
PM to flag off India’s first hydrogen train today
New Delhi, July 16: India’s first hydrogen train is set to be flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Haryana’s Jind on July 17, making it one of the historic moments while signalling a turning point in the nation’s train mobility and also giving a big push towards clean transportation. The state-of-the-art Hydrogen train boasts numerous advantages, including many firsts — the absence of smoke and zero carbon emissions, operating on clean hydrogen fuel, with water vapour as its sole byproduct emission. These unique selling points have positioned it as a significant topic of discussion nationally before its official launch. The Hydrogen-powered train connecting Jind and Sonipat in Haryana is a pilot project, set to begin an exciting chapter in the nation’s green energy transition journey, while powering a new era in train journeys. (IANS)
