NEET Re-Exam: Who is the person arrested from Bhilwara, Rajasthan? Who was selling fake papers on Telegram? Panic created before NEET exam! Who was hiding behind VPN? Why was Telegram blocked before NEET re-exam? Shocking secret revealed
Bhilwara (Rajasthan): Police have arrested a youth in Bhilwara, Rajasthan. He is accused of selling fake question papers on Telegram before the re-examination of NEET-UG 2026 to be held on June 21. A senior police officer gave this information on Friday. This arrest has taken place at a time when the Central Government has imposed restrictions on Telegram regarding the NEET-UG re-exam.
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Who is this accused of selling NEET paper?
- The accused has been identified as Akash Chaudhary. It is being told that he was running a Telegram channel using Virtual Private Network (VPN) to hide his identity.
- Bhilwara Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Nemi Chand Chaudhary told news agency ANI that the accused was produced in the court today, from where he has been sent to police custody till June 22.
54 members connected with the accused through telegram
- DSP Chaudhary said, “A boy named Akash Chaudhary of Patel Nagar made a fake paper regarding the NEET exam to be held on June 21 and some people were found selling it. Pratap Nagar police station has arrested him. A case has been registered against him and investigation is being done.
- Police say that we will investigate all the people involved in this. Because there are 54 members in his Telegram group… a complete investigation will be conducted in this matter.”
- When asked about the temporary ban on Telegram, he said, “He was able to open (Telegram) through the VPN app.”
Court told that Telegram had to be shut down
- Meanwhile, the Delhi High Court on Friday upheld the Centre’s decision to temporarily block Telegram ahead of the NEET-UG 2026 re-exam. The court said that the architecture of this platform helps in spreading illegal content rapidly and small measures to stop it have failed in the past also.
- Dismissing the plea by Telegram FZ LLC, Justice Tejas Karia observed that Telegram’s technical features, such as large public channels, cloud-based storage, large ecosystem of bots, username-based operation, mirror channels and ability to edit messages, make it an easy target for spreading misinformation and fraud.