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NEET UG Exam Cancelled: The National Testing Agency (NTA) has scrapped the NEET UG 2026 exam conducted on May 3 for more than 22 lakh candidates following a question paper leak. The agency added that fresh dates for the re-exam, along with revised admit cards, will be announced separately.
The cancellation follows allegations of large-scale malpractices, primarily centred on a pre-circulated "guess paper" that reportedly matched around 120 questions in Chemistry and showed significant overlaps in Biology with the actual NEET UG 2026 question paper. According to reports, this material had reached coaching hubs such as Sikar, Rajasthan up to a month in advance and was allegedly sold to aspirants for sums as high as 730,000 even the night before the exam, prompting investigations by Rajasthan's Special Operations Group that included raids and questioning of multiple individuals.
Rajasthan's Special Operations Group (SOG) has so far arrested 15 people in connection with the case, including alleged mastermind Manish Yadav and Rakesh Mandwaria. Rakesh is suspected to have links with a consultancy centre in Sikar.
'Mastermind' Manish Yadav has been detained in Jaipur as the NEET paper leak investigation expands to three states. Another accused in the NEET paper leak case, Dhananjay Lokhande, has been arrested from Ahilyanagar, where he was allegedly hiding after fleeing from Pune.
