Teacher’s late-night complaint first flagged NEET-UG 2026 leak

The first formal warning about the alleged NEET-UG 2026 paper leak came from a teacher in Rajasthan’s Sikar.

Hours after the medical entrance exam ended on May 4, the teacher, who works with a well-known coaching institute in Sikar, went to the Udyog Nagar police station carrying a stack of papers. He told police he had reasons to believe the just-concluded exam had been compromised.

According to local police, officers heard him out and asked him to submit a written complaint. He left without filing one.

The trigger for his alarm was a handwritten “guess paper” he had received the previous evening, on May 3, from his landlord. The landlord had reportedly obtained it from his son in Kerala and wanted the teacher to verify whether it was authentic.

When the teacher compared the handwritten material with the actual NEET paper, he found multiple matching questions, prompting fears of a possible leak.

Officials said he spent the next few days weighing the seriousness of the discovery and deciding his next move. He reportedly approached journalists first, but the claim drew little attention at the time.

Support from the owner of his coaching institute eventually pushed him to escalate the matter to the National Testing Agency.

On the night of May 7, he sent a formal complaint to the NTA, stating that the material he had received was a nearly 60-page PDF containing handwritten answers, including around 90 chemistry questions and several pages of biology content.

In the complaint, he said he was ready to hand over his mobile phone for forensic examination and claimed to have “full proof,” citing the seriousness of the examination and its impact on students’ futures.

He also urged an independent investigation, saying the case appeared to involve unauthorized access, circulation and transmission of confidential exam material.

Sources said investigators later ruled out any wrongdoing by the teacher, noting that he had received the “guess paper” only after the examination had ended.

His complaint ultimately prompted the NTA to alert central agencies, setting off a wider probe first handled by Rajasthan’s Special Operations Group before being transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation.