Some NEET candidates needed to half with unique paperwork, pay later: CBI probe | India Information
3 min learnNew DelhiCould 29, 2026 04:29 AM IST
The CBI investigation into the alleged leak of NEET‑UG questions has discovered that the accused made some candidates half with their unique college paperwork which might be returned as soon as they appeared for the examination and paid the quantity agreed upon.
It’s learnt that the CBI, throughout searches and seizures, recovered unique identification and tutorial paperwork of a number of college students from the possession of the arrested individuals.
A supply mentioned investigation groups have uncovered two modus operandi: in a single, the accused would take funds upfront for questions; the opposite technique was to take possession of a candidate’s unique paperwork that will be returned as soon as cost was made after profitable completion of the examination.
“Initially, the CBI had arrested Yash Yadav from Gurgaon and Mangilal Biwal and his associates from Rajasthan. Mangilal obtained the leaked paper from Yadav for Rs 10 lakh on the situation that round 150 questions would match the unique. He allegedly obtained the papers on Telegram on April 29 and distributed printed copies to his sons, cousin and others together with a instructor,” a CBI official mentioned.
Throughout the searches, the CBI recovered a number of paperwork from Yadav and after scrutiny, it was discovered that some have been unique paperwork of scholars. “Equally, a number of unique paperwork have been recovered from the arrested individuals in Pune. The CBI is learnt to have recovered unique paperwork of at the least 12 college students. They’re being approached to document their statements,” a supply mentioned.
On Wednesday, the CBI arrested Dr Manoj Shirure, a Latur‑primarily based doctor, and Tejas Harshadkumar Shah, a Physics school member at a Pune teaching institute, in reference to the alleged leak of questions, taking the full variety of arrests within the case to 13. The CBI additionally recovered Rs 5 lakh from the home of Dr Shirure’s sister on Could 21. “It has been discovered throughout investigation that Dr Shirure took Chemistry questions from retired instructor P V Kulkarni within the third week of April and picked up Rs 5 lakh from the spouse of co-accused Shivraj Motegaonkar, founding father of RCC Lessons in Latur,” a CBI official mentioned.
The probe has additionally discovered that Shirure helped two different docs whose youngsters had obtained Chemistry questions from Kulkarni and had paid Rs 3 lakh per pupil. Of this, he had obtained 50% of the quantity collected from the 2 college students.
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Motegaonkar is a pal of Kulkarni who was concerned within the examination course of on behalf of the NTA. Searches at his institute and residence, the CBI mentioned, resulted within the restoration of a Chemistry query financial institution which contained precisely the identical questions which appeared within the NEET examination.
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