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Local BJP youth wing leader among 2 Rajasthan brothers held in NEET exam case: Police
A SOG officer said Dinesh Biwal and his brother bought the NEET guess paper for ₹15 lakh and allegedly sold it to several students in Sikar
A local BJP youth wing leader is among two brothers who have been arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) from Jaipur district’s Jamwa Ramgarh town in connection with the NEET-UG 2026 paper leak, a senior Rajasthan Police officer said on Wednesday.
“Dinesh Biwal and his brother Mangilal Biwal have been tracked down to have received the guess paper containing 120 questions of the NEET-2026 from a person, Yash Yadav, from Haryana. They purchased it for ₹15 lakh and then sold it to several students in Sikar. We detained him on Monday for questioning, while the CBI arrested them this morning and took them to Delhi,” a senior officer from the Rajasthan Special Operations Group (SOG) said on condition of anonymity.
The SOG, which was probing the case before CBI was ordered to take over the investigations, also found that four children of Dinesh's two brothers cleared the NEET exam last year. Two of them got into a government medical college while the other two were studying medicine at a private college, he said.
"Dinesh's own son, Rishi, who appeared in NEET this year, has gone absconding along with his cousin, Aman, who cleared the test last year. We suspect that Dinesh provided the paper to his son as well. It is also possible that they attempted some irregularities in the NEET exam in the previous year. We are searching for them," the SOG officer added.
The arrests triggered a political slugfight in the state with the Congress attacking the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), saying Dinesh Biwal, one of the two brothers arrested by CBI, had been an active office-bearer of the BJP’s youth wing for years.
“Dinesh Biwal, who was arrested by the CBI in connection with the NEET-2026 exam paper leak, is a BJP functionary. Is that the reason the BJP didn’t lodge an FIR for such a long time? This incident exposes this party. Is the BJP safeguarding the culprits who are destroying the future of the youth of this country?” said former chief minister Ashok Gehlot in a post on X along with a news report of his alleged role and Dinesh’s poster, identifying him as a local BJP youth wing leader, wishing people on Diwali.
An area BJP leader in Jamwa Ramgarh said Dinesh had been the secretary of the BJP’s youth wing in 2014 but had not been very active in the party.
“Dinesh and Mangilal have been in the moneylending business for a long time. We have no idea about his affiliation with any other political party or any anti-social activities. But these two brothers have been staying in Sikar for the last five to six years. It was on Monday evening that the SOG detained them from their Jamwa Ramgarh house at around 7 pm,” he added.
To be sure, Dinesh’s Facebook profile shows several photos with Rajasthan education minister Madan Dilawar in 2021 and some recent photos with local BJP MLA Mahendra Pal Meena. Three days ago, Meena also shared a photo of Dinesh on Facebook, wishing him on his birthday.
