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CBI chargesheet details NEET-UG paper leak modus operandi
The CBI has filed a chargesheet in the NEET-UG 2026 paper leak case, accusing three NTA subject experts of exploiting security gaps to extract confidential questions and leak them for financial gain.…
The Story in Brief
The CBI has filed a chargesheet in the NEET-UG 2026 paper leak case, accusing three NTA subject experts of exploiting security gaps to extract confidential questions and leak them for financial gain. The agency's probe relied on digital forensic evidence including an access control app from a Pune housing society, call data records, and analysis of leaked question papers. The CBI alleges that chemistry expert P V Kulkarni used rough sheets to smuggle questions on chits, while physics expert Manisha Sanjay Havaldar and zoology-botany expert Manisha Gurunath Mandhare memorised questions and reconstructed them in hotel rooms.
The Indian Opinion
The media narrative around the NEET paper leak often blames the NTA alone, but the CBI chargesheet makes clear that individual experts and a network of middlemen exploited the system for profit. The real question is why such conduct was possible for years without detection. Instead of demanding the scrapping of NEET entirely, the public should watch whether the government implements the Radhakrishnan panel's recommendations for a two-tier digital exam with a dynamic question bank. That is the one concrete test of whether anything will change.
Sources (5): nationalheraldindia.com, thehindu.com, rediff.com, ndtvprofit.com, indiatvnews.com
This story was synthesised by AI from the 5 sources linked above.
Updated: this story now draws on 5 sources.
