About 410 questions in a 'guess paper', around 120 matching the real chemistry section: the Jaipur family the CBI calls the link in the NEET-UG 2026 leak that cancelled the exam

NEET-UG decides nearly every MBBS seat in India, and after the 2024 leak the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act 2024 was meant to deter a repeat. On Tuesday 12 May 2026 the National Testing Agency cancelled the exam held on 3 May after leak allegations and said it would be re-conducted, and the CBI registered a case on a written complaint from the Union Ministry of Education. The investigation led to a family in Jamwa Ramgarh, a rural pocket on the edge of Jaipur.

According to Scroll (14 May 2026), the Rajasthan Special Operations Group began inquiries after a "guess paper" of around 410 questions circulated before the exam; Rajasthan Police said about 120 of them matched questions in the chemistry section. The CBI then arrested five people on Wednesday 13 May: brothers Dinesh Biwal and Mangilal Biwal and Mangilal's son Vikas in Jaipur, Yash Yadav in Gurugram and Shubham Khairnar in Nashik, and searched premises in several locations, seizing phones and other devices. The FIR cites criminal conspiracy, cheating and criminal breach of trust under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the Prevention of Corruption Act and the 2024 examinations law.

ThePrint reported on 16 May that, according to the CBI, Mangilal's son told interrogators he met Yash Yadav during coaching in Sikar and allegedly claimed he could obtain the paper for money, and that the CBI described the family as the connecting link between buyers and a syndicate with illegal access to the question paper. ThePrint also reported that the CBI had arrested a professor who sat on the NTA committee that set the paper, together with an associate in Pune, as the alleged source. The same report noted that five members of the family had cleared NEET-UG 2025 at their first attempt and were at medical colleges in Jaipur, Mumbai, Varanasi, Sawai Madhopur and Dausa. Medical Dialogues reported on 18 May that a first-year MBBS student linked to the family had stopped attending classes and the hostel at SMS Medical College, Jaipur, which additional principal Dr Monica Jain confirmed, and that another at the government medical college in Dausa had reportedly also stopped attending. The 2025 exam was outside the probe's scope at that stage, ThePrint said, and no finding against the students had been reported. A defence lawyer told the Rouse Avenue court the case rested on unverified complaints.

The mechanism, as reported, was retail rather than wholesale: leaked questions circulated inside a much larger guess paper, and an unnamed official told Medical Dialogues the paper reached the family through Yadav and may have been passed on among students in Sikar. The failure was at the source, inside the paper-setting chain, which no student can check. What a student can check is the seller: anyone offering guaranteed questions before NEET is either a fraud or a participant in a crime.

Do not pay for leaked or guaranteed papers, whether on Telegram, WhatsApp or through a classmate. The 2026 case shows that buyers' families face arrest and that earlier results come under scrutiny too. Follow only nta.ac.in for exam notices, keep screenshots of any offer, and report it to the police.