India, May 17 -- The alleged leak of the NEET-UG 2026 examination paper has widened dramatically, with the CBI now probing not just a network of middlemen and coaching links, but also insiders within the National Testing Agency (NTA).

The investigation has already led to nine arrests across five states in four days and has forced more than 2.2 million aspirants to prepare for a re-examination scheduled for June 21.

According to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), two separate sets of question papers were leaked by two members of the NTA's paper-setting committee and then circulated through a chain of intermediaries before reaching students ahead of the May 3 exam.

The CBI has arrested Manisha Gurunath Mandhare, a senior botany t...