JAIPUR: CBI on Tuesday took over the NEET-UG 2026 paper leak probe after Rajasthan Police's Special Operations Group (SOG) said "paper leak mafia" had sold a leaked question paper disguised as a "guess paper" - containing all 90 biology and 45 chemistry questions from the May 3 exam - for Rs 10 lakh to Rs 25 lakh a copy, across a network stretching from Rajasthan and Haryana to Maharashtra, Uttarakhand and Kerala.A CBI team reached the SOG headquarters in Jaipur late on Tuesday to question suspects rounded up by police. The central agency said it registered an FIR based on a complaint from the Union education ministry's department of higher education, invoking charges of criminal conspiracy, cheating, criminal breach of trust, theft and destruction of evidence under BNS, apart from offences under Prevention of Corruption Act and Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024."These questions were hi-dden inside a guess paper containing over 400 questions," a senior SOG official said.In Nashik, police detained a 27-year-old from Nandgaon who had allegedly altered his appearance to evade detection. DCP Kirankumar Chavan said Nashik Police acted on a request from their Rajasthan counterparts. "He will be handed over to Rajasthan Police once their team arrives in Nashik," Chavan said.Sources said the suspect was a third-year Bachelor of Ayurveda Medicine and Surgery student in MP's Sehore and worked part-time as a career counsellor in Nashik. He was preparing to...
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