The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested a Pune-based botany teacher in connection with the alleged paper leak in the 2026 undergraduate National Eligibility cum Entrance Test, said the Union government on Saturday.
The exam is conducted for admission to undergraduate medical courses in India. This year, more than 22 lakh candidates had appeared for the test.
The botany teacher has been identified as Manisha Gurunath Mandhare. She was appointed as an expert by the National Testing Agency and had access to Botany and Zoology question papers as part of the examination process, said the Union Ministry of Education in a press release.
She was arrested in Delhi. On Sunday, she was sent to 14 days of CBI custody, reported ANI.
This came a day after the Union government said that the CBI had arrested the main accused in the paper leak case from Pune.
The Centre identified the alleged “kingpin” as PV Kulkarni, a chemistry lecturer involved in the examination process on behalf of the National Testing Agency.
Mandhare’s roleAccording to the Ministry of Education, Mandhare allegedly mobilised prospective NEET candidates through another accused, Manisha Waghmare, who was arrested on Thursday.
Special coaching sessions were conducted at Mandhare’s home in Pune in April, “where several questions from Botany and Zoology were allegedly disclosed, discussed and dictated to students”, the...
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