“A Decade of Breaches: The Administrative Anatomy of India’s Recurring Examination Leaks Part-3”, My Ind Maker, July 31, 2026
“Paper leaks in India’s national entrance examinations are not a phenomenon confined to any single year or any single examining authority. Examined administratively rather than anecdotally, the record shows a recurring set of structural vulnerabilities under CBSE’s administration of AIPMT is inherited rather than resolved after the NTA took charge. Different investigations, years apart, have identified them in strikingly similar terms.
The 2015 AIPMT Precedent
Before NEET or the NTA existed in their present form, the Supreme Court cancelled the 2015 AIPMT examination conducted by CBSE after evidence emerged of a large-scale, technology-enabled cheating operation involving miniature wireless devices (Bluetooth earpieces) used to transmit answers to candidates from external solvers. Over six lakh candidates were affected, and the Court ordered a full re-examination, the first confirmed instance in independent India’s history of an entire national medical entrance test being cancelled and re-conducted. The episode is instructive because the vulnerability exploited was not a supply-chain breach but a candidate-side communication breach, a reminder that examination security is a multi-layered problem, of which physical question-paper custody is only one dimension.
Recurring Vulnerabilities Identified Across the 2015-2025 Decade
Reviewing bodies including the CBI, the K. Radhakrishnan expert committee, and successive reports of Parliament’s Standing Committee on Education have, over this period, converged on a consistent diagnosis of structural gaps rather than one-off criminal aberrations. Five recur across nearly every documented incident…….”
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