NEET-UG 2026 cancelled after question paper leak
The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Tuesday cancelled the National Entrance-cum-Eligibility Test-Undergraduate (NEET-UG) conducted on May 3 after evidence emerged that the paper was leaked.The NTA is expected to announce the schedule for the re-test in seven to 10 days.
The re-test will be conducted in the “minimal possible time”, NTA Director-General Abhishek Singh said. No new registration will be required, and no fee will be charged for the re-test; in fact, the NTA has promised to refund fees already paid.
Almost 22 lakh students appeared for this year’s NEET-UG, which is the gateway examination for admission to undergraduate medical programmes across the country.
Four days after the exam was held, a whistleblower’s message led investigators to a “guess paper”, which included a significant number of questions in the question paper.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case to probe the alleged paper leak, following a reference from the Department of Higher Education under the Ministry of Education, the agency said on Tuesday. The Maharashtra Police said on Tuesday that one suspect has been arrested from Nashik after receiving a request from the Rajasthan Police about an accused involved in the paper leak.
“The exact point where the leak happened will only be disclosed when the CBI inquiry is completed. We have complete footage of up to 1,50,000 CCTVs in strongrooms on the date of exam and post exam,” Mr. Singh said. “However, a whistleblower complaint on May 7 led us to inquire into a hand-written note circulating digitally on messaging groups which matched the NEET main exam question paper.”
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