The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Friday announced that the re-examination for NEET-UG 2026 will be held on June 21, nearly three days after the undergraduate medical entrance examination was cancelled over allegations of a paper leak.
In a post on X, the agency said: “NEET (UG) 2026 — Examination Date Announced. The National Testing Agency, with the approval of the Government of India, has scheduled the re-examination of NEET (UG) 2026 on Sunday, June 21, 2026.”
The NTA urged candidates and parents to rely only on official communication channels for updates related to the examination.
The announcement came two days after Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan chaired a high-level meeting with senior officials to discuss the modalities for conducting the re-examination in a “safe, transparent and credible manner”.
The meeting was attended by Higher Education Secretary Vineet Joshi, School Education Secretary Sanjay Kumar, NTA Director General Abhishek Singh, CBSE Chairperson Rahul Singh, and senior officials of the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan and the Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti.
The NEET-UG 2026 examination, conducted on May 3, was cancelled by the NTA on May 12 following allegations of a coordinated paper leak. The examination was held across 551 cities in India and 14 cities abroad at more than 5,400 centres, with over 22 lakh candidates appearing for the test.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is probing the matter, has registered an FIR under charges related to criminal conspiracy, cheating, criminal breach of trust, destruction of evidence, and provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act and the Public Examination (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024.
Meanwhile, a Delhi court recently granted seven days’ CBI custody of five accused arrested in connection with the alleged paper leak. The accused were identified as Mangilal Biwal, Dinesh Biwal, Vikas Biwal, Shubham Khairnar and Yash Yadav.
Observing that the investigation was at a “very nascent stage”, the court said preliminary findings pointed to a larger conspiracy involving the circulation and sale of leaked question papers to candidates for substantial sums of money.
-ANI
