NEET Paper Leak Row Reaches Supreme Court Again; Plea Seeks Scrapping of NTA and Fresh Exam Framework

May 16, 2026

At a time when the NEET paper leak case gained momentum in the country, the United Doctors Front on Saturday in filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking the dissolution of the NTA. The petition demands that the existing National Testing Agency (NTA)—which was established under the Societies Registration Act, 1860—be dissolved, and that a new statutory framework be created through an Act of Parliament.

The United Doctors Front (UDF) has moved the Supreme Court of India seeking dissolution of the National Testing Agency (NTA) in its present form following the alleged NEET-UG 2026 paper leak controversy and subsequent cancellation of the examination. The petition has been filed…

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Here’s what the plea seeks from Centre

The petition further seeks a directive to the Central Government to enact legislation in Parliament to establish a statutory National Testing Body, endowed with clear legal authority, norms of transparency, and accountability to Parliament.

The petition has been filed by petitioner United Doctors Front (UDF), a registered organisation, under Article 32 of the Constitution alleging “systemic and catastrophic failure” in the conduct of NEET-UG 2026 and seeking structural reforms in the examination system.

CBI arrestes Professor P V Kulkarni in NEET paper leak case 

Three days into its probe, the CBI on Friday claimed it had cracked the NEET paper leak case with the arrest of a Pune-based professor, the “source” of the leak of the paper.

Professor P V Kulkarni, a domain expert in chemistry from Latur who has for years served on panels involved in setting the NEET question paper, was taken into custody from his residence in Pune, officials said.

“P V Kulkarni has been arrested at Pune after thorough interrogation,” a CBI spokesperson said. Exploiting his privileged access to confidential material, Kulkarni hosted special coaching classes at his house in the last week of April and dictated to his students questions, options and answers which appeared in the NEET UG paper on May 3.

“During the last week of April, 2026, he had mobilised students, with the help of another accused namely Manisha Waghmare who was arrested on May 14 by CBI,” the spokesperson said in a statement.

Students allegedly paid several lakh rupees to write down the questions

Students allegedly paid several lakh rupees to attend the sessions where they wrote the questions down in their notebooks and later “tallied exactly” with the actual NEET-UG paper conducted on May 3, the spokesperson said.

CBI teams probing the case have found the actual source of the leakage of the chemistry paper, as well as the middlemen involved in mobilising the students who paid several lakhs of rupees to attend the special coaching classes where these question banks were dictated and discussed, she said.

“In the last 24 hours, CBI has also conducted searches at several locations across the country and seized several incriminating documents, electronic gadgets and mobile phones,” the spokesperson said. A detailed forensic and technical analysis of the seized items is going on, she said.