The CBI has revealed that a coaching centre owner from Maharashtra's Latur, Shivraj Raghunath Motegaonkar, paid ₹5 lakh to an NTA paper setter for chemistry questions of the NEET-UG paper 2026. The CBI stated that 111 out of 136 questions found in Motegaonkar's phone matched the questions in the NTA's master question sets for the NEET (UG) 2026 exam.