PATNA, Jan. 31 -- Amid mounting pressure ahead of the Budget Session beginning on Monday and growing allegations of attempts to hush up the case, the Bihar government has decided to hand over the mysterious death of a medical aspirant to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

Deputy chief minister Samrat Choudhary, who also holds the home portfolio, said that chief minister Nitish Kumar has urged the Centre to transfer the probe into the NEET aspirant's death in Patna (Case No. 14/26) to the CBI.

"Chief minister Nitish Kumar has requested the government of India to hand over the investigation of the NEET student's death case in Patna to the CBI so that the incident can be thoroughly probed in a transparent and impartial manner," Cho...