It was the WhatsApp group named Fifa world cup 2026, created last November with eight students, that has emerged as a key piece of evidence in exposing the NEET question paper irregularities and the culprits.
The CBI has said that the NEET-UG question paper leak case helped CBI officials identify the main accused, P.V. Kulkarni and Manisha Mandare, and also brought to light how the question paper leak conspiracy was planned.
The CBI, which is investigating the NEET question paper leak case, has stated this in the 20,000-page chargesheet it filed in a Delhi court this month.
According to the statements of two NEET candidates, a person named Mandhare from Pune created a WhatsApp group with eight members.
This group was created to coordinate special classes for Biology and to discuss matters such as lesson schedules, post-exam answer sheet evaluation, and score calculation.
In this group, beauty expert Manisha Waghmare from Pune helped bring in a few more students. It was also stated that online classes would be provided through subject experts Kulkarni and Mandare, who work with the National Testing Agency, and that the questions asked in the NEET exam would also be provided here.
During the online classes, the two teachers gave the students the questions that appear in the NEET exam little by little and had them note them down in their notebooks.
It has been found that the questions they provided were included in the NEET question paper. Both of them had already been arrested in May.
Both of them had worked at various stages of preparing the NEET question paper. In addition, physics teacher Manisha Hawaldar was arrested on charges of writing 66 questions by hand and providing them to students for money.
In the case that caused a huge shock among students after the NEET question paper leak led to the exam being canceled and a retest being conducted, many people have been arrested, including Shubham Khairnar in Nashik, Maharashtra; Dhananjay Lokhande in Ahilyanagar; Manisha Wagmare in Pune; Professor P.V. Kulkarni in Latur; biology lecturer Manisha Mandhare from Pune; Mangalal Bilal, Vikas Bilal, and Dinesh Bilal in Jaipur, Rajasthan; Yash Yadav in Gurugram, Haryana; Pune coaching center founder Shivraj Raghunath Madgaonkar; and Pune Seth Hiralal Saraf Prasala school teacher Sanjay Havaldaar.
