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Tea stall owner charged in Rs 4.5 lakh NEET leak
The Indian Express·
The CBI chargesheeted Pune tea stall owner Sheshrao Bajrang Suryavanshi as the 14th accused in the NEET-UG 2026 leak. He offered a leaked paper for Rs 4.5 lakh in April. On April 28 he took 10 students to Panchak to study questions for May 3. He was arrested on September 2; one payment used 35.8 grams of mortgaged gold.
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What It Means For You
- Students who paid for leaked papers risk disqualification if investigators trace their names through the Nashik network.
- Coaching centres near the stall may face scrutiny as the CBI maps links to counsellor Shubham Khairnar in Nashik.
- Families who mortgaged jewellery for payments could seek legal recovery if charges lead to convictions.
What's Happening
- Two aspirants at the stall were approached while discussing the exam, investigators said.
- Suryavanshi collected original documents from at least 10 students as payment surety, the CBI found.
- One student scanned questions on a phone before papers were returned on May 2, sources said.
What the CBI traced in Pune
- Khairnar, a career counsellor, was arrested in Nashik in May during the wider leak probe.
- Leaked papers moved through two routes out of Maharashtra, earlier CBI reporting said.
- The national medical entrance test was held on May 3, 2026.
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