Claim: The NEET PG paper leak in Jaipur means the 30 August 2026 question paper was out, and the national test is compromised.
Verdict: Misleading
On the record: PIB Fact Check, 30 August 2026: no question paper leak. Two halls at iON Digital Zone iDZ Sitapura (TC 41682 and 41683) lost internal power. NBEMS has set a re-exam for those candidates on 5 September at 3 pm in Jaipur. NBEMS president Dr Abhijat Sheth, in The Indian Express: no paper leak, cybercrime or hacking.
By Raushan Kumar, Founder & Editor. Checked against PIB Fact Check, the NBEMS Sitapura notice, and the Board president’s on-record remarks. Method: Editorial Standards.
New Delhi — 1 September 2026. Last updated 1 September 2026.
Two computer halls in Sitapura went dark in the middle of NEET PG. By night the story on the feed was not a power cut. It was a leak. If that second story were true, every rank from 30 August would sit under a cloud — more than two lakh doctors who finished the paper in other cities included. Get this wrong and you are not arguing about a Jaipur fuse. You are arguing about whether the 2026 postgraduate list can be trusted.
Here is the catch. The Board that ran the test published a narrower file than the forwards did.
What stopped at Sitapura
NEET-PG 2026 was a single-shift computer exam on 30 August. The Indian Express, citing NBEMS, put the national frame at 2,73,096 registered, 2,65,980 present, 2,63,535 completed. The break was local. At iON Digital Zone iDZ Sitapura, test centres 41682 and 41683, the paper could not be finished. NBEMS named the cause in its own post: internal power supply issues, and it named the halls.
About 2,445 candidates in those two rooms were pulled out of a finished rank list and parked for a fresh sitting. That number is in the same Express report and in later Board briefings. The rest of the country sat through. A leak that large would not look like two rooms and a generator. It would look like identical papers turning up in coaching forwards before the last section locked.
The Board’s public line on crime is short. Dr Abhijat Sheth, NBEMS president, told the Express: “There was no paper leak, cybercrime, or hacking. There were no complaints received.” He described one problem: those 2,445 Sitapura candidates, internal power failure, a postponed sitting “to preserve its sanctity.” Read that quote on the Express page before you treat a screenshot as a FIR.
How a power cut became a leak
By afternoon the gap on the timeline filled itself. Halls down. Phones out. A national exam. The word that travels in that vacuum is leak — the same word that has attached itself to medical tests in India for years, sometimes with evidence, often without. PIB Fact Check rated the Jaipur version the same evening. The post is dated 30 August. The claim, it said, is misleading. “There has been no question paper leak in the NEET PG examination.” Technical disruptions at the Sitapura iON centres, “caused due to internal power supply issues.” Re-exam: 5 September.
PIB quoted the Board, not a rumour mill. The Board’s own 30 August post is a notice graphic: re-examination for affected candidates at those two Sitapura centre numbers. No leak sentence on that card. When the official file and the forward disagree, the file is the one that schedules 2,445 people at 3 pm on a Saturday.
Union Health Ministry officials, speaking to the Express, attributed the internal power failure at the centres to M/s TCS Ltd., the exam-conducting agency. That is a vendor problem, which is ugly enough for the candidates who sat in the dark. It is still not a stolen PDF.
Swipe sideways on a phone. Only the first row is the claim under review.
5 September is a sitting, not a confession
A re-exam is what a board does when a centre dies mid-paper. It is also, on social media, treated as proof that the first paper was already public. Watch that jump. NBEMS said it will run the 5 September test “in the same manner” and keep scores from being distorted. Revised admit cards and the venue go out separately. The portal for that paper is nbe.edu.in / natboard.edu.in, not a forwarded JPEG.
If you were in 41682 or 41683, the live question is the new hall, the new clock, and whether normalisation is explained in writing. If you finished on 30 August in another city, the live question is whether the Board’s “no leak” line holds when 5 September is done. Neither question is answered by a caption that says “paper out.”
Same shape as other government-claim forwards we have checked — a real disruption, a heavier crime stacked on top. The PM-KISAN Rakhi ₹4,000 clip did it with a payout date. This one does it with two dark halls.
Questions candidates are typing
Was there a NEET PG paper leak in Jaipur?
PIB Fact Check, 30 August 2026, says no. NBEMS president Dr Abhijat Sheth said there was no paper leak, cybercrime or hacking. The recorded failure is internal power at two Sitapura centres.
Who has to sit NEET PG again on 5 September?
Candidates from iON Digital Zone iDZ Sitapura, TC 41682 and 41683 — about 2,445 people. Time: 3 pm, Jaipur. Fresh admit cards from NBEMS.
Does a re-exam mean the 30 August paper is invalid for everyone?
No. NBEMS’s notice and figures treat the disruption as limited to those two centres. Hundreds of thousands of candidates completed the test the same day.
Open the NBEMS Sitapura notice and the 30 August PIB post before you forward the leak graphic. The halls that failed have a date. The leak does not have a document.
Raushan Kumar founded The Facts Desk in 2026 to check viral government and exam claims against primary notices. Corrections: corrections@thefactsdesk.com. The change will be noted on this page.
