A Delhi court today sent the prime suspect in the NEET paper leak case, P V Kulkarni, and another accused Manisha Waghmare, to CBI custody for 10 days. Special CBI judge Ajay Gupta remanded Kulkarni and Waghmare in CBI custody after the probe agency submitted that the duo needed to be taken outside the national capital for further investigation and that the larger conspiracy had to be investigated. Special Public Prosecutor Neetu Gupta appeared for the federal agency and sought a 14-day remand for the interrogation of the two accused.

During the proceedings, the CBI said that Kulkarni was a subject expert and had been associated with setting up the 2026 NEET UG question paper. It said that co-accused Dhananjay Lokhande had collected the leaked material from Manisha Waghmare. Considering the detailed arguments made by the agency and the counsel for the accused, the court remanded the two to CBI custody for 10 days. According to the CBI, Kulkarni was a lecturer of Chemistry involved in the process of examination on behalf of NTA and had access to the question papers.