The NEET-UG 2026 examination was cancelled earlier this month following paper leaks and reports of malpractice.

When a student in Rajasthan’s coaching hub of Sikar walked into his teacher’s office with two PDFs on his phone, it seemed at first like just another post-exam rumour. Within hours, the teacher realised he was staring at one of the biggest breaches in India’s medical entrance system — documents that appeared to match nearly 135 questions from the cancelled NEET-UG 2026 paper.

The NEET-UG 2026 examination was cancelled earlier this month following paper leaks and reports of malpractice. The exam will be held again on June 21.

The fateful night
On May 3, after the medical entrance exam ended, Rajat (name changed), a senior teacher and operator at a coaching institute, met with students who returned from their exam centres.

Two hours later, a student named Satish (changed) approached Rajat. “Sir, what should I do?” Satish asked. He showed Rajat two PDFs of a “guess paper” forwarded by his landlord. The document apparently matched around 135 questions from the actual exam paper.

Rajat immediately took Satish to his private office. “Most of them were happy as their exam had gone well while some were also anxious about the result. Soon Satish came to me with the PDFs, I took him to my office separately as I didn’t want to discuss such a sensitive matter in front of the students.

Cross-examination
Rajat and another teacher analysed the documents for three hours. By 9 pm, they found that 45 chemistry questions and 90 biology questions matched the original exam paper.

The first PDF contained about 60 pages of scanned, handwritten chemistry questions. The second PDF contained 87 pages of typed biology questions.

“We were shocked. Satish called his landlord immediately who told him that he got it from his son at around 11 pm on May 2. His son is studying medicine in Kerala. Both of us were conflicted.

Police station drama
They first tried to take the matter to journalists, but were told a police complaint was necessary. So Rajat sent Satish to the local police station.