After books, NEET UG leak accused now seeks interim bail for retest

2 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Jun 9, 2026 03:28 PM IST

Yash Yadav, an accused in the NEET UG paper leak case. (Source: File)

After he sought permission to get books in judicial custody so he could study for the NEET retest scheduled on June 21, Yash Yadav, an accused in the NEET UG paper leak case, has now moved a Delhi court seeking interim bail to appear for the exam.

The court had earlier granted him permission to get books in judicial custody.

Yash, from Gurgaon, is a 20-year-old student at Uttarakhand Ayurveda University and a NEET aspirant who appeared in the now-cancelled May 3 exam.

Seeking 15-day interim bail, he cited the retest as well as his sister’s wedding. The court of Special Judge Ajay Gupta has asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to file a reply in the matter. The matter will now be heard on June 12.

According to the CBI, which is investigating the case, Yash allegedly received PDF files of leaked question papers through Telegram and sold them for Rs 10 lakh. The agency claimed he was instrumental in distributing the “leaked” paper.

The CBI said a “guess paper” of 150 pages with 410 questions was circulated to some aspirants. Of those 410 questions, about 120 questions appeared in the chemistry paper of the exam. The “guess paper” was with students weeks before the examination, the agency has claimed.

Till date, the agency has made 13 arrests in the case including various teachers and students from Delhi, Jaipur, Gurgaon, Nashik, Pune, Latur and Ahilyanagar.

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The CBI has claimed that National Testing Agency (NTA) sources were behind the leak. P V Kulkarni, a retired chemistry teacher who was “associated with NTA” was earlier arrested by the agency from Pune.

The NTA is the government agency under the Union Ministry of Education that administers the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test for admission to undergraduate medical colleges across the country every year. The exam consists of a consolidated question paper in four sections: physics, chemistry, botany, and zoology.

More than 22.7 lakh aspirants appeared for this year’s exam on May 3. The NTA announced the leak and cancelled the exam on May 12.

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