Education Ministry said
“A fresh examination shall be conducted, for which information shall be shared separately. Simultaneously, the matter is being handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (C.B.I.) for thorough investigation in the matter,” the ministry said in a statement. This comes a day after the examination was conducted on Tuesday, June 18. "The UGC received certain inputs from the National Cyber Crime Threat Analytics Unit of the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) under the Ministry of Home Affairs on the Examination. These inputs prima-facie indicate that the integrity of the aforesaid examination may have been compromised," a senior official said, as per news agency PTI. The decision by the Ministry comes amid a massive row on the medical entrance exam NEET over alleged irregularities, with the issue now before the Supreme Court. In a shift from earlier practice, the National Eligibility Test (NET) was conducted in pen and paper mode this time on a single day with a record 11 lakh students registering for the exam.
