PUNE/MUMBAI, May 21 -- The arrest of Shivraj Motegaonkar, 47, owner of Latur's Renukai Career Centre - a coaching network with 30,000 registered students across nine Maharashtra districts - has placed the town at the centre of the NEET UG 2026 paper leak case. At the core of the case are two National Testing Agency (NTA)-designated subject experts who ran private coaching classes and have been named by the CBI as masterminds. Though this is the first time that Latur's coaching classes have been allegedly involved in underhand practices, questions are being raised about the town's success ratio in recent NEET exams. As per 2024 NTA data, of 24,496 students who appeared for NEET 2024 from Latur, 1,245 scored above 600 marks. Among them, 376 crossed the 650-mark threshold generally needed for admission into government medical colleges. Twenty-five students scored above 700 marks and five crossed the rare 710-mark barrier. P6...