Overview

• The CBI filed a case against NTA officials and a Maharashtra doctor for allegedly accepting up to Rs 90 lakh per candidate to alter NEET UG 2025 scores.
• The agency arrested Sandeep Jawahar Shah, who claimed to have access to NTA insiders and negotiated bribe amounts down to Rs 87.5 lakh each.
• Stalin called NEET a “moral scandal” and accused the exam process of irregularities at every stage, from paper distribution to result publication.
• The Tamil Nadu government has passed legislation to replace NEET with Class XII board exam marks for medical admissions but is awaiting approval from the Governor and the Union government.
• Critics blame NEET for disadvantaging rural and marginalized students and link the exam to more than 20 suicides in the state since 2017.