A social media post claims a conspiracy of ‘Exam Jihad’ behind the NEET-UG paper leak case. This post, which has photographs of allegedly three Muslim men arrested by the CBI in this regard, has recently gained significant traction on social media. We fact-check this claim through this article.

Claim: The three Muslim men seen in the viral post were arrested by the CBI in relation to the NEET-UG paper leak scam. There is a bigger conspiracy of Exam Jihad surrounding this incident.
Fact: The three men seen in the viral video have indeed been arrested by the CBI in relation to the NEET-UG paper leak scam. However, the CBI has also arrested Hindus in relation to this case, not just the three Muslim men seen in the viral post. Also, there are no news reports supporting the viral conspiracy of ‘Exam Jihad.’ Hence, the claim made in the post is Misleading.
To verify the viral claim’s authenticity, we performed an internet search using relevant keywords, leading us to several news reports (here, here, and here) on the CBI’s arrest of the said three-Muslim men.

One, a journalist named Jamaluddin Ansari; two, a principal of Oasis school in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, Ehsanul Haque; and the third one is the vice-principal of the same school, Imtiaz Alam.

Through the same news reports, we also learnt that the CBI had earlier arrested a few more persons in Gujarat in relation to the NEET-UG paper leak case who were non-Muslims. These include Jay Jalaram School’s principal, Purushottam Sharma, teacher Tushar Bhatt, and middle man Vibhor Anand.

The owner of this school, Dixit Patel, was also arrested by the CBI (here and here).

The complete list of all the accused in this case was published by ‘The Indian Express’ here. This evidence makes it clear that the accused in the NEET-UG paper leak case are not just Muslims but also Hindus, and many of these were arrested by the CBI.
To sum up, news regarding the arrest of three Muslim men from Jharkhand in relation to the NEET-UG paper leak case is being shared with a false communal claim.