{
 "no": 36,
 "id": "case-36",
 "sk": 20260503,
 "year": 2026,
 "date": "03 May 2026",
 "cat": "Exam integrity",
 "sev": "red",
 "title": "NEET 2026. The 'fixed' exam leaks all over again",
 "stamp": "Reforms failed. Cancelled anew.",
 "human": {
  "v": "~<b>2.27 million</b> aspirants; the exam cancelled nine days after it was held",
  "est": false
 },
 "cost": {
  "v": "Another lost year for a generation of medical hopefuls; a nation of parents back on edge",
  "est": true
 },
 "what": "Two years after the 2024 debacle and a fanfare of reforms, GPS-tracked papers, jammers and a new anti-cheating law, NEET-UG 2026 was cancelled on 12 May after a circulating guess paper was found to overlap heavily with the real exam. The CBI moved in and arrests followed.",
 "dodge": "The repeat laid the 2024 fixes bare as theatre. The same agency, the same leak, the same script of a sacked official and a fresh committee. No minister has owned the second collapse, even as it fed a nationwide youth protest movement over exam integrity and jobs. The message to 2.27 million young people was that their futures are expendable.",
 "ministers": [
  {
   "n": "Dharmendra Pradhan",
   "r": "Education Minister"
  }
 ],
 "pos": "The government again pointed to the CBI probe, the arrests and a scheduled re-examination.",
 "alt": "Treat a second collapse as a resignation-level failure and rebuild exam security under genuinely independent oversight, not another in-house committee.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "label": "The Hindu: NEET-UG 2026 cancelled after leak",
   "url": "https://www.thehindu.com/education/neet-ug-2026-cancelled-to-be-reconducted-paper-leak-nta-may-12-2026/article70968713.ece",
   "tier": 2,
   "archiveUrl": "http://web.archive.org/web/20260512080216/https://www.thehindu.com/education/neet-ug-2026-cancelled-to-be-reconducted-paper-leak-nta-may-12-2026/article70968713.ece"
  },
  {
   "label": "Indian Express: NTA scraps exam, orders CBI probe",
   "url": "https://indianexpress.com/article/education/neet-paper-leak-nta-cancels-neet-ug-2026-fresh-dates-soon-10685084/",
   "tier": 2,
   "archiveUrl": "http://web.archive.org/web/20260513112758/https://indianexpress.com/article/education/neet-paper-leak-nta-cancels-neet-ug-2026-fresh-dates-soon-10685084/"
  }
 ],
 "caseUrl": "https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-36/"
}