NEET paper leak case: CBI files chargesheet against 13
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The Central Bureau of Investigation has filed a chargesheet against 13 arrested persons accused in the 2026 undergraduate National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test paper leak case, The Hindu reported on Wednesday. All of them are in judicial custody.
The chargesheet came three days after Dharmendra Pradhan resigned as the Union education minister following a nearly two-month agitation led by the Cockroach Janta Party political campaign over the alleged irregularities in the conduct of competitive examinations.
Among those named in the chargesheet are three National Testing Agency subject experts. The agency conducts the NEET examination.
Those named in the chargesheet are chemistry expert PV Kulkarni, biology expert Manisha Gurunath Mandhare and physics expert Manisha Sanjay Havaldar, The Hindu reported.
The CBI alleged that Kulkarni leaked the question paper, The Indian Express reported.
The agency also alleged that another accused person Shivaraj Motegaonkar, a professor and owner of RCC Coaching Institute in Maharashtra’s Latur, obtained the question paper at Siddhivinayak Hospital in the district. The hospital is run by Manoj Bhagwanrao Shirure, who has also been named in the chargesheet.
The CBI claimed that the hospital premises were used to “facilitate access to a chemistry question paper” in April, weeks before the examination, The Indian Express reported.
The agency has also arrested several alleged intermediaries accused of sourcing and distributing the leaked questions. Tejas Harshadkumar Shah, physics faculty and chief operating officer...