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CBI set to file the final NEET charge sheet within a week

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CBI set to file the final NEET charge sheet within a week
The Central Bureau of Investigation headquarters in New Delhi. Photograph by Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The final NEET charge sheet in the 2026 undergraduate paper-leak case is expected within a week, and officers familiar with the inquiry told Hindustan Times on Sunday, 4 October 2026, that it is unlikely to name any official of the central government or the National Testing Agency.

The Central Bureau of Investigation has, those officers said, been able to establish the alleged role of 13 people: NTA-appointed subject experts, coaching-centre operators, middlemen and candidates. One officer said the probe into the circumstances of the leak did not establish anyone else’s role beyond private individuals, and that the concluding charge sheet would complete the investigation.

Front view of the CBI headquarters in Delhi
Another view of the CBI headquarters in Delhi. Photograph by Apoorv0101, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Who the first NEET charge sheet already named

The first charge sheet was filed on 28 July and named 13 accused, including three subject experts appointed by the NTA: Manisha Gurunath Mandhare for botany and zoology, Prahlad Vithalrao Kulkarni for chemistry, and Manisha Sanjay Havaldar for physics. The agency then left open the question of other conspirators while it waited for forensic opinions. It has since arrested three more people described as alleged beneficiaries of leaks through coaching centres. Their roles, and the forensic findings, are to be set out in the concluding filing.

The National Testing Agency cancelled the 2026 test on 12 May after at least 120 questions in a “guess paper” matched the paper sat on 3 May. Hindustan Times reported that the leak was detected about a week after the exam, that it led to protests, and that then education minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned. On the agency’s own earlier account, the same experts were reused across stages of paper-setting, and Kulkarni was alleged to have transcribed 135 chemistry questions and carried them out of a confidential area. The case has drawn on 360 witnesses, 422 documents and 43 material objects.

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