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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