3 min readNew DelhiMay 16, 2026 10:42 PM IST Amid the heated NEET-UG paper leak row, a Delhi court has pulled up the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for closing the investigation into the 2024 UGC-NET paper leak case. Neetu Nagar, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate at Rouse Avenue Court on Friday demanded a written explanation from the agency, questioning why a closure report was filed in January 2025 despite the CBI’s own findings explicitly stating that a suspect had collected money from candidates by “luring them with leaked question papers”. “Perusal of the closure report shows that it has been mentioned in para no. 16.30 by the IO (investigating officer) concerned that ‘Nikhil Soni has collected money from the aspirants of the UGC-NET 2024 by luring them on pretext of giving/leaking the exam paper’,” said Nagar in her order dated May 15. “It is manifest that crime has been committed as per the contents of para 16.30 but still the investigating officer has ignored the same and filed a closure report for reasons best known …