Gurugram: Student detained over suspected involvement in NEET paper leak

Police said that the Farrukhnagar student earlier lived in Sikar, Rajasthan and had studied there in a coaching institute for a considerable time to prepare for his medical entrance examination

Published on: May 13, 2026, 10:22:22 IST

By Debashish Karmakar

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A first year Bachelor of Ayurveda, Medicine and Surgery (BAMS) student studying in an ayurvedic college in Uttarakhand was detained by Rajasthan police from Gurugram’s Farrukhnagar. He is suspected to be among one of the key links who had circulated the leaked NEET-UG 2026 question paper, police said on Wednesday.

Police said that he had procured it for ₹15 lakh from another BAMS student hailing from Nashik in Maharashtra.

The Nashik suspect is a 3rd year student who studies in a college in Bhopal who had got the question leaked for ₹10 lakh.

It was via the Farrukhnagar student that the leaked questions had reached students in Sikar, Rajasthan along with the solutions, police said.

A senior official of Gurugram police said that the Farrukhnagar student earlier lived in Sikar, Rajasthan and had studied there in a coaching institute for a considerable time to prepare for his medical entrance examination.

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“He was still in touch with several of the students and coaching institutes in Sikar and thus probably passed on the leaked question paper to them,” he said.

Gurugram police officials said that a team of Rajasthan police special operation group (SOG) had reached Khurrampur on Monday night and had taken away the suspect for questioning on suspicion of his involvement in the question paper leak.

Sandeep Turan, public relations officer of Gurugram police, said no official communication was made by the Rajasthan police team about the raid at Khurrampur to detain the suspect.

“The leak had not taken place in Gurugram. However, we will surely act if any state police seek our assistance. However, the investigation of the case has already been taken over by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI),” he said.

Meanwhile, another senior Gurugram police official said that an internal inquiry was launched to gather information about the movements of the student hailing from Farrukhnagar.

“We are gathering information if he was in Gurugram or somewhere else before and on the day of the examination,” he said.

Officials said that the Rajasthan police team had questioned the suspect for several minutes at his home in front of his family members about his contacts and financial transactions. After strong suspicion, they took him away to Jaipur immediately via road, officials said.

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Debashish Karmakar
Debashish Karmakar is a principal correspondent with the Hindustan Times, Gurugram bureau. He has a vast journalistic experience of almost 14 years of covering crime, court, power, transport, administration, weather and other beats while working across various organisations. He has been covering Gurugram, Faridabad, Nuh, Palwal and other districts of southern Haryana for more than four and a half years. He has produced several breaking and exclusive stories while reporting from the ground where he maintains a strong presence on a daily basis. He writes news articles which are hard-hitting and accurate. With his strong bureaucratic sources, he frequently writes stories to expose the failure of the system forcing authorities to take necessary course-corrective steps. Besides crime, important convictions and court orders, he also writes on human-angle stories, on power issues and challenges faced by the residents on a daily basis in Gurugram and neighbouring areas. In the past, he worked for media houses like The Times of India, where he extensively reported on important government matters and daily proceedings at the Patna High Court. He has also worked in the electronic media and had done ground coverage on the Kedarnath deluge that wrecked Uttarakhand in 2013.Read More

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