NEET paper leak row: CBI grills doctor, teacher, parlour owner

Educational consultancy relation Shubham Khairnar, suspended inferior assemblage teacher Manisha Mandhare, quality parlour proprietor Manisha Waghmare and a Latur-based paediatrician moved centre signifier Thursday arsenic CBI widened its NEET-UG 2026 insubstantial leak probe, chasing wealth trails, integer footprints and a increasing database of suspected beneficiaries. CBI brought Khairnar to Pune for questioning portion Mandhare and Waghmare faced caller interrogation implicit alleged roles successful leaking and circulating question papers earlier the aesculapian entranceway exam connected May 3. National Testing Agency told a parliamentary sheet it was of the presumption that the insubstantial wasn’t compromised done its strategy but added that CBI volition connection a conclusive finding. Over 22 lakh students wrote NEET-UG, which NTA cancelled connected May 12 pursuing allegations of wide malpractice and insubstantial leak.CBI probes relation of paediatrician who got leaked insubstantial for childCBI is besides examining the relation of a paediatrician from Latur, suspected of procuring leaked insubstantial for his kid done a retired chemistry lecturer, Prahlad Vithalrao Kulkarni of Latur, whom investigators described arsenic root of the leak. “We are questioning him to found his involvement,” a CBI authoritative said. Investigators fishy respective parents, including aesculapian practitioners, paid hefty sums to entree the question insubstantial successful advance.

Multiple families crossed districts person been questioned, portion immoderate suspects stay nether surveillance. Khairnar operated an acquisition consultancy guiding aspirants preparing for MBBS, BDS, BHMS and different aesculapian entranceway exams. CBI is probing his links with a Pune-based accused arrested earlier and whether helium acted arsenic a conduit betwixt aspirants and the leak network. Mandhare, attached to Pune’s Modern College and associated with NTA, is being questioned with neighbour Waghmare implicit however leaked papers were sourced, disseminated and routed to candidates. Sources said CBI is focusing connected fiscal transactions, integer connection records and concatenation of intermediaries .