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CBI chargesheet reveals NEET-UG leak network, digital trail
The CBI has filed a chargesheet in the NEET-UG 2026 paper leak case, citing digital evidence and records from a Pune residential society app. The agency has accused 13 people, including three…
The Story in Brief
The CBI has filed a chargesheet in the NEET-UG 2026 paper leak case, citing digital evidence and records from a Pune residential society app. The agency has accused 13 people, including three NTA subject experts, P V Kulkarni, Manisha Gurunath Mandhare, and Manisha Sanjay Havaldar, of exploiting procedural gaps to leak questions for money. A beautician, Manisha Sanjay Waghmare, allegedly circulated the papers to aspirants via a chain of middlemen.
The CBI used biometrics from a society app to show that students attended special coaching classes by the accused experts days before the May 3 exam. The leak originated when the experts allegedly smuggled question chits from NTA's Delhi office and reconstructed them in their hotel rooms. The agency sent recovered material to a Delhi University expert panel, which found matches up to 85 per cent with some exam sets.
The Indian Opinion
The narrative that the NEET-UG leak was a small, isolated affair is hard to square with the CBI chargesheet. It paints a picture of a systematic operation: subject experts, middlemen, coaching centres, and students spanning Pune to Rajasthan. The sheer coordination and use of tech, from society entry logs to WhatsApp, suggests a deep rot, not a one-off slip. The key test now is whether the judicial process will convict the well-connected, or if it will become another case where the system protects its own. Can the courts deliver where the NTA failed?
Sources (2): timesnownews.com, assamtribune.com
This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above.
