NEET paper leak case: Accused Shubham Khairnar sent to judicial custody till June 6

A Delhi court on Sunday sent Shubham Khairnar, accused in the NEET-UG 2026 paper leak case, to judicial custody till June 6.PTI reports that Special Judge Ruchi Aggarwal has allowed this Central Bureau of InvestigationThe (CBI) petition has demanded judicial custody of Khairnar.Earlier, on May 14, the court had sent Khairnar and four others to seven days’ CBI custody, noting that the allegations point to the involvement of an “organized gang” engaged in leaking and circulating confidential exam papers for monetary gains.The other accused include Dinesh Biwal, his brother Mangilal Biwal, Mangilal’s son Vikas Biwal – all residents of Jamwa-Ramgarh in Rajasthan’s Jaipur district – and Yash Yadav of Gurgaon.Who is Shubham Khairnar?Shubham Khairnar, a 30-year-old resident of Nandgaon in Maharashtra’s Nashik district, was detained by the Nashik Police earlier this week in an alleged paper leak case.Following a request from the Rajasthan Police Special Operations Group (SOG), which was initially investigating the case, he was picked up by Unit 2 of the Nashik Crime Branch from Indiranagar area of ​​the city.NEET-UG paper leak case explainedThe NEET-UG 2026 exam was canceled amid allegations of paper leak as investigators found evidence that a so-called “guess paper” was circulated among the candidates a few weeks before the exam.According to investigators, the document reportedly contained around 410 questions, many of which closely matched the actual paper held on May 3. Officials claimed that around 120 chemistry questions were similar to those asked in the exam.The CBI has registered the FIR under charges related to criminal conspiracy, cheating, breach of trust and provisions of the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act.meanwhile, National Testing Agency (NTA) has announced that the re-examination of NEET (UG) 2026 will be conducted on June 21.