New Delhi: Sheshrav Bajrang Suryawanshi, alias Raj Suryawanshi, who is the 14th accused chargesheeted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the 2026 NEET-UG question paper leak case, owned a tea stall in Maharashtra’s Pune and had allegedly made the NEET question paper available to a group of at least 10 students before the examination held on May 3, reported Indian Express.Suryawanshi allegedly told two students when they were discussing NEET over tea at his tea stall that a friend of his, a “doctor”, could get the question paper for them, but it would cost Rs 4.5 lakh.“In mid-April this year, two of them (students) were sitting in the shop and discussing the paper when they were approached by him (Suryawanshi). After striking a deal, on April 28, he took them to a house at Panchak village where they sat along with eight other students, and were given the alleged leaked questions for the NEET-UG examination, held on May 3. They studied them for the next three to four days,” a source told the newspaper.Suryawanshi is reportedly a close associate of co-accused Shubham Khairnar.The Indian Express report added that during investigation, the CBI found that Suryavanshi collected all the original documents of the students along with educational certificates as surety for payment.The students were allowed to leave the house on May 2 – a day before the examination – and were asked to return the papers containing the leaked questions. However, one of them discreetly scanned all the questions on his phone, the source said.“After the examination, Suryavanshi approached one of the students and asked him to pay Rs 3 lakh in cash at his tea shop. The student’s mother arranged the money after mortgaging 35.8 grams of gold jewellery and handed it (the cash) over to him. He also asked another student for money, but that student kept buying time and did not pay anything,” a source told Indian Express.No govt or NTA official named by CBI so farInterestingly, so far, the CBI has not named any government or National Testing Agency (NTA) official as an accused, despite the fact that its counsel had told a local court in May that the “entire NTA process” and the alleged involvement of NTA officials in the leak were under CBI’s scanner.After it came to light that the NEET-UG exam administered on May 3 this year was leaked, the authorities had retroactively cancelled it and reconducted the test for almost 20 lakh students on June 21.Later, the weeks-long youth movement in June-July involving the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) and the opposition had led to Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation. He was replaced by Pralhad Joshi, his colleague in the BJP and the Lok Sabha.It also prompted Prime Minister Narendra Modi – who never explicitly addressed the protests – to announce the formation of a fast-track court to prosecute those alleged of involvement in the leak.