How NTA subject experts leaked NEET-UG paper
The CBI has filed a chargesheet detailing how subject experts at the National Testing Agency leaked the NEET-UG medical entrance exam. The accused allegedly exploited a lack of security protocols to copy and memorize questions during the translation process.
Why it matters
The leak of a major national medical entrance exam undermines public trust in educational institutions and affects the future of thousands of medical students.
New Delhi: Noting down questions and answer options in chits or memorising and writing them down after returning from work, marking relevant paragraphs in NCERT books—this was the broader modus operandi of the three subject experts who allegedly leaked the question paper for this year’s NEET-UG exam, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has found.
In its 94-page chargesheet, a copy of which ThePrint has seen, the central agency has also documented the shortcomings of the National Testing Agency (NTA)—the higher education body that conducts the medical entrance exam—that subject experts P. V. Kulkarni, Manisha Mandhare and Manisha Havaldar allegedly exploited.
ThePrint had earlier reported that Kulkarni was a subject expert in chemistry, while Mandhare and Havaldar were experts in botany and physics, respectively. They are among the 13 accused arrested and charged by the agency in connection with the NEET paper leak.
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