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NEET-UG 2026 Exam Leak and Investigation

Wednesday, May 13, 2026
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NEET-UG 2026 Exam Leak and Investigation

A hostel owner in Sikar , Rajasthan , stumbled right into the middle of a massive exam scandal. He didn’t know it then. A "guess paper"—something that looked suspiciously like actual NEET questions—got shared hours before the NEET-UG 2026 exams.

It all kicked off late on May 2nd. An MBBS student from Sikar, studying way over in Kerala, got a PDF. It was supposedly from a friend in Sikar. A guess paper.

The student, being a medical student already, didn't really need the material. But he forwarded it to his dad. The dad runs a hostel there, coaching students for the May 3rd NEET . It seemed useful for those students.

The student messaged his father around eleven at night. Said the paper might help if any of the hostel residents were taking the exam.

The next morning, the hostel owner tried to pass it around. To four girls staying there who were due to sit for the test. But they were already gone, off to their centers.

Then the owner, out of sheer curiosity, shared the file with a chemistry teacher he knew. He compared it to the actual NEET paper. And the teacher found something. Forty-five out of eighty-eight chemistry questions matched exactly.

Things got more intense. He asked a biology teacher to look. Together, they found ninety out of two hundred and four biology questions were also exact matches.

That number added up to one hundred thirty-five questions matching the real exam. A leak, plain and simple.

The owner and the chemistry teacher got spooked. They went to the local police in Sikar. They wanted to report it. But sources say the police just shut it down.

They questioned why they were complaining after the exams were over. Some whispered that maybe they just wanted the whole thing cancelled.

But they didn't give up. They emailed the National Testing Agency, the group running NEET . It was a long shot, but it finally got movement.

The NTA then pulled the strings. They contacted the Intelligence Bureau and got Rajasthan’s Special Operations Group involved. They started looking on May 8th. The investigators actually confirmed the timeline using the hostel owner’s phone records and those WhatsApp chats.

As the probe dug deeper, it wasn't just Sikar. It spread. They found two brothers near Jaipur, in Jamwaramgarh. They allegedly sold the paper to a contact in Sikar.

The trail kept going. Investigators pointed toward a first-year Ayurveda student in Haryana. He was accused of spreading the leak to aspirants across Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana. They were getting paid big sums for it.

Later, the investigation hit Maharashtra too. Police traced the source to a student in Nashik named Shubham Khairnar. They actually recovered a physical copy of the "guess paper" from him.

And then, the big news hit. The NTA announced on Tuesday that the NEET-UG 2026 exam was cancelled. They said they’d announce new dates later. And the strange part? Candidates don't have to re-register or pay anything extra. Their old applications still count.

For now, the people who found out—the owner, his son, the teacher—they are being kept quiet. Security reasons, they said. No names are being released.

Written by Gree News Team — Senior Editorial Board

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