As the investigation in the NEET-UG 2026 paper leak case is progressing, the mystery is becoming deeper. NTA officer, PV Kulkarni, Manisha Waghmare and paper-setting committee connection brought under the surveillance of CBI has raised a big question – Was the real mastermind sitting inside the medical entrance examination itself? NEET exam will be held again on June 21.
NTA Officer Under CBI Watch: There has been a sensational twist in the NEET-UG 2026 paper leak case, which is playing with the future of lakhs of medical students of the country, which has shaken the entire education world and the government system. The biggest and shocking revelation so far has come in the investigation of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). According to sources, a high-ranking officer of the National Testing Agency (NTA) is now directly under the strict surveillance and radar of CBI. After this revelation, it has now become clear that the person who broke into the country’s biggest examination is not an outsider, but someone ‘Vibhishan’ sitting inside the system.
Paper was leaked 6 days before the exam: You will be shocked to see the timeline
The timeline presented by CBI in the court while seeking the custody of the accused is shocking. According to the investigating agency, the script of this entire game was written much before the exam date (3 May 2026):
- That black date of 27th April 2026: The main accused Manisha Sanjay Waghmare, along with the same suspected insider officer and other operatives of NTA, had obtained the original question paper and its answer keys on 27 April 2026 itself. That means the paper was leaked 6 days before the exam.
- That dangerous network of lecturers: Waghmare had met the mastermind of this entire leak scandal and chemistry lecturer PV Kulkarni. The person who brought these two together was none other than Biology lecturer Manisha Mandhare, who herself was a member of the paper-setting committee of NTA! Mandhare’s arrest on Saturday confirmed that the leak was completely an ‘inside job’.
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A conspiracy to erase clues: handwritten questions and the mystery of the ashes
“In this bloody game of money, the evidence was destroyed in such a manner that even the CBI was stunned…” According to the CBI’s theory, Waghmare took question papers from NTA and handed them over to Kulkarni. Kulkarni wrote those complex chemistry questions with his own hands on paper and shared them with the examinees. After this, Dhananjay Lokhande took command, who was caught from Ahilyanagar in Maharashtra on 13 May. Lokhande’s job was to disseminate these questions to further sub-agents and students.
But the scariest part of this story is its climax. As soon as the exams ended on May 3, the conspirators realized that a crackdown could be imposed on them. Waghmare and Kulkarni immediately destroyed the handwritten chemistry questions and the leaked original documents by burning them. Despite this trick of turning the evidence into ashes, CBI has connected the links and taken both of them on remand for 10 days.
Re-examination on June 21: Will the future of students be safe this time?
After this mega-controversy and nationwide outrage, NTA has officially announced that the canceled NEET-UG 2026 examination will now be re-conducted on Sunday, June 21, 2026. Strict security arrangements are being made for this examination to be held under the strict surveillance of the court and CBI.
Final attack on paper leak mafia: The entire system will change from next year.
This historic fraud has hurt India’s reputation at the global level. Seeing the seriousness of the situation, Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has announced a revolutionary change. The government has made it clear that from next year the traditional mode of pen and paper will be buried forever. Now the NEET exam will be conducted completely online as a computer-based test (CBT-Computer Based Test). Now it remains to be seen whether in the 10 days of CBI custody, Waghmare and Kulkarni will reveal the name of the ‘inside official’ who put the future of crores of doctors of the country at stake for a few rupees.