India, May 30 -- In a dig at the government's counsel informing the Supreme Court that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was personally overseeing the ongoing NEET probe, Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Friday said the PM "personally supervised" the paper leak.

His remarks drew a sharp response from the BJP, which said the Congress MP's take was "outrageous" and prioritised "sensationalism over responsibility".

On May 12, the National Testing Agency (NTA) cancelled the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Undergraduate), or NEET-UG, that had been conducted on May 3 for admissions to medical courses, following a paper leak, which is being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (C...