00:00All right, big development coming in in the NEAT Paper League case.
00:03NEAT UG Paper League Kingpin has finally been arrested by the CBI.
00:07P.V. Kulkarni, chemistry lecturer, was involved in the process of examination on behalf of NTA.
00:12He had access to the question papers.
00:14P.V. Kulkarni has now been arrested at Pune.
00:17After a thorough interrogation, he originally belongs to Latour.
00:21In the last 24 hours, CBI has also conducted searches at several locations across the country
00:27and seen several incriminating documents, evidence, electronic gadgets, and mobile phones.
00:33Detailed forensic technical analysis of the seized item is going on.
00:37But the latest is that the mole who leaked the NEAT paper was from the NTA.
00:46That's the latest and he has now been arrested.
00:49To give you details of that, P.V. Kulkarni has been arrested from Pune.
00:54Who P.V. Kulkarni was?
00:56He was a chemistry lecturer involved in the process of examination on behalf of NTA.
01:01So he was part of the National Testing Agency.
01:05This is also somewhere down the line, viewers, egg on the face of NTA.
01:11From 2024, there has been a repeated demand for a clean-up and a re-look where NTA comes into
01:16question.
01:17I want to quickly cut across to my colleague, Divesh, who's breaking this news in India today.
01:21Divesh, give us more details.
01:22P.V. Kulkarni, a professor, a chemistry professor, and was involved in the entire process of the examination and the
01:31papers.
01:31He was a part of the NTA, I believe.
01:34Will you give us more details?
01:40Well, P.V. Kulkarni is a retired professor.
01:45He used to work as a chemistry professor at Dayanand College in Latour.
01:49After that, he was running private coaching classes for NEET preparation at Latour itself.
01:56Latour is an educational hub.
01:58It's a district where a lot of NEET aspirants go to prepare for NEET examinations.
02:04And it is one of the hubs, educational hubs in the state of Maharashtra.
02:08P.V. Kulkarni was running these private coaching classes and also was part of the NTA, which set up the
02:16paper, the question paper for NEET examination 2026.
02:20His role came to light when Manisha Vagmare from Pune was arrested.
02:25Now, let me bring in the grid, the network.
02:29Shubham Khernar from Nashik, he has been arrested.
02:32Shubham Khernar supplied the paper to Yesh Yadav in Gurugram.
02:36Yesh Yadav supplied the paper to Bival family in Rajasthan.
02:41And from there, the case came to light.
02:43Now, Shubham Khernar has links to Dhananjaya Lokhande.
02:46Dhananjaya Lokhande has been arrested from Ailyanagar in Maharashtra.
02:49Dhananjaya Lokhande has links to Manisha Vagmare in Pune.
02:53Manisha Vagmare has been arrested.
02:55And Manisha Vagmare had links to Professor P.V. Kulkarni in Latour,
02:59who had been a participant in setting up the NEET examination paper for the 2026 examinations.
03:08And now, he has been arrested.
03:09We had highlighted this on India today.
03:13A few hours ago, that P.V. Kulkarni has been taken to Delhi.
03:17He has been detained by CBI.
03:18And he is a suspect in leakage of the NEET examination paper 2026.
03:26And now, it has been confirmed by the CBI that P.V. Kulkarni has been arrested.
03:30He is one of the key accused who leaked the NEET 2026 question paper.
03:36Over to you.
03:37All right, Dinesh. Appreciate you joining us with all the details.
03:40The kingpin apparently has been arrested.
03:42He was part of the NTA.
03:43He was employed by the NTA for paper setting.
03:47His name is Professor Kulkarni.
03:48P.V. Kulkarni, to be precise, a chemistry professor.
03:51We are going to continue getting you the details on how the entire web was cast.
03:56And who were the main people involved.
04:00And it, at least for now, leads to one individual, Professor P.V. Kulkarni, who has been arrested now from
04:07Pune.
04:07He was employed by the NTA.
04:10The National Testing Agency also has enough to answer on this account.
04:14He was employed by the NTA.
04:14He was employed by the NTA.
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