Special Judge Anu Grover Baliga of Rouse Avenue Court granted time to the CBI to submit the annexures and listed the matter for August 3. The hearing lasted a few minutes.
Baliga was the Delhi High Court’s designated special judge for paper leak cases. Her appointment comes days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the setting up of fast-track courts to ensure swift and stringent punishment for those involved in exam fraud, following a month-long protest at Jantar Mantar over the paper leak.
The CBI’s case
As per the central probe agency, the questions were allegedly leaked by National Testing Agency (NTA) panel member and translator P V Kulkarni.
After this, Shivraj Motegaonkar, who runs Renukai Chemistry Classes in Latur, allegedly obtained the questions on the premises of Siddhivinayak Hospital run by another accused, Manoj Bhagwanrao Shirure.
The CBI had claimed that the hospital premises were used to “facilitate access to a chemistry question paper in April 2026”, weeks prior to the May 3 exam.
As per the CBI, the paper leak caused several students to die by suicide, and it caused a loss of more than Rs 600 crore to the government exchequer.
Till date, the agency has made multiple arrests in the case, including various teachers and students from Delhi, Jaipur, Gurgaon, Nashik, Pune, Latur, and Ahilyanagar.
What happens next?
August 3 will see a detailed hearing on the chargesheet.
After considering the chargesheet and hearing arguments from the CBI and the defence, the court will reserve the order on the cognizance.
After cognizance, there will be scrutiny of documents after which arguments on charge will begin.
The chargesheet was filed for the offences of criminal conspiracy, cheating, criminal breach of trust, destruction of evidence and others under BNS; for the offence of criminal misconduct under the Prevention of Corruption Act; and for offences under the Public Examination (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024.
The CBI cited 360 witnesses, 422 documents and 43 material objects in this chargesheet. All accused persons are in judicial custody as on date. Two have been denied bail and others are pending.
More than 22.7 lakh aspirants appeared for this exam. Following the “leak”, the NTA cancelled the exam on May 12. The retest took place on June 21 and the results were declared on July 16.
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