APupil from Maharashtra’s Nashik who allegedly obtained a physical re-create of the subject Eligibility cum spellbind try out (NEET-UG) ‘guess’ paper has been arrested on Tuesday by Maharashtra police.The student identified as Shubham Khairnar was a bachelor of medical sciences student in Bhopal who got the ‘guess’ paper’s physical copy in Nashik a few days before the NEET exam on May 3. He forwarded a soft copy to a person in Haryana a senior Rajasthan police officer aware of the investigation by the special operation group (SOG) said.Khairnar interrogation will reveal the source of the physical paper, the official said. A senior SOG official said the ‘guess’ paper leaked from a printing press in Nashik, and was used in Haryana or Rajasthan. “We believe the actual paper leaked was used to prepare a guess paper may be in Haryana or in Rajasthan,” he said.He added that there exists a well-organised nation-wide network with paper solvers to impersonators. The officials said the hand written ‘guess’ paper matched 120 of the 150 questions for biology and chemistry from the original paper. The same was sold to employees in paying guest hostels for NEET students and coaching centres. The guess paper contained 410 questions with answers. The Rajasthan police also detained a counsellor from a coaching centre in Sikar, who had allegedly paid ₹5 lakh to buy the guess paper and sold it to NEET aspirants through WhatsApp. Also Read:NEET UG 2026: Opposition criticises govt after exam cancellation over paper leakTo be sure, the enforcement directorate (ED) in 2023 had conducted a raid at an accountant’s office in a prominent coaching centre in Sikar in connection to the paper leak in Rajasthan Eligibility Examination for Teachers (REET), 2021. The SOG officials said the academy is still under their lens in this case.On Monday, the SOG handed over the investigation to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).A senior SOG official said their investigation revealed a network of at least 45 persons spread across Maharashtra, Kerala, Haryana, Bihar, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand, who provided the ‘guess’ paper to NEET aspirants.The SOG launched the probe after it found that at least 120 questions in the NEET paper held on May 3 were same as in a ‘guess’ paper circulated on WhatAapp groups.The SOG officials believed that someone had access to the actual question paper on basis of which the model question paper was prepared.Sikar coordinator of the National Testing Agency (NTA), Narsi Ram on Sunday said that some students complained to the police about the ‘guess’ paper after the examination was conducted ‘peacefully’ in the coaching hub of the state. About 30,000 students appeared for the exam there.
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