A designated fast-track court hearing cases related to paper leaks and unfair means in public examinations on Wednesday took the CBI’s chargesheet in the NEET UG 2026 paper leak case on record.

Special Judge Anu Grover Baliga accepted the agency’s final report against 13 accused and granted the CBI time to file the annexures.

The CBI informed the court that around 20,000 pages of annexures are being scanned and would be submitted within three days.

The matter has been listed for further proceedings on August 3.

Advocates V K Pathak and Arjun Anand have been appointed as the CBI’s public prosecutors in the case following a court direction to the prosecution to make the appointments, sources said.

The CBI on Tuesday filed a chargesheet against 13 accused, including three paper experts, two persons associated with coaching centres, middlemen and several beneficiary candidates.

The agency has invoked charges under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), including criminal conspiracy, cheating, criminal breach of trust and destruction of evidence. The chargesheet also includes alleged offences under the Prevention of Corruption Act and the Public Examination (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024.

Inputs from PTI

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