question-paper leak incidents across Indian board, entrance, university and recruitment exams from June 2014 to July 2026 — compiled from a public Kaggle dataset and verified news reporting, with every added incident carrying a source citation.
Updated · Methodology & sources · Download the dataset (CSV)
Incident counts and what happened afterwards, year by year — swipe between the two views.
The states and the kinds of exams behind the 120 incidents.
Every incident classified by the stage of education the exam serves.
Registered or appeared candidates in leak-hit exams, researched per incident from official releases and press reporting.
Paper leaks are no longer just an examination problem — they are a recurring trigger for street protests by students and job aspirants across India. The major protest movements, event by event:
The June–July 2024 NEET-UG leak brought nationwide student demonstrations, a Supreme Court-monitored CBI probe, the removal of the NTA's Director General and the first use of the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act 2024. Two years later the cancelled NEET-UG 2026 (22.7 lakh candidates) reignited protests, a fresh CBI investigation, and a re-exam for over 20 lakh aspirants.
Thousands of BPSC 70th-prelims aspirants held weeks of protests in Patna demanding a full re-exam after leak allegations at the Bapu Sabhagar centre; police used lathi charges and water cannon, Jan Suraaj joined the agitation, and the dispute went to the Supreme Court, which dismissed the plea in April 2025.
After the cancelled January 2024 JSSC-CGL exam, candidates alleged the September re-exam was also compromised — students marched over 100 km, gheraoed the commission in Ranchi, and secured a High Court-ordered FIR and CID probe before results were released.
The Uttarakhand Unemployed Union led protests in Dehradun until the UKSSSC graduate-level exam was cancelled (October 2025); Odisha aspirants gheraoed a minister's residence over the OSSSC CRE leaks; Manipur's student body DESAM demanded probes into back-to-back HSLC and HSSLC leaks; and Assam student organisations demanded the education minister's resignation after every Class 11 paper was cancelled statewide in March 2025.
The protest wave has drawn in India's courts and rights organisations. The Supreme Court monitored the NEET-UG 2024 case; the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act 2024 created jail terms for leak networks; and civil-rights groups such as Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) have examined the governance fallout — CJP's June 2026 analysis argued that exam security cannot justify sweeping communication restrictions imposed after the NEET leak, calling them a substitute for accountability. The pattern behind the anger is visible in this tracker's data: only of incidents ended in a re-exam, while closed with no judgement at all — every incident and source is listed below.
Candidate counts are researched for of the incidents — registered or appeared figures for the affected exam (whole-exam totals where the single leaked paper's count is unpublished), so these totals are a floor, not a ceiling.
Blank = no incident with a reported candidate count in that cell.
Candidate figures are registered or appeared counts for the affected exam, as researched per incident; whole-exam totals where the single paper's count is unpublished.
Full details — conducting body, action taken, notes and source citations — are in the downloadable CSV.
Base data: India Question Paper Leaks — Kaggle
(66 incidents, Jun 2014–Aug 2024, CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0), with state-name typos cleaned.
54 further incidents (Jan 2024 – Jul 2026) were researched from credible outlets — The Indian Express, The Hindu,
ThePrint/PTI, Deccan Herald, LiveLaw, Careers360, India TV, regional dailies and official board advisories —
each row carrying its citation. "Accused" incidents include officially denied fake-leak scams, kept deliberately:
they are part of the leak economy. Multi-day episodes of a single leak are counted once. Candidate counts (registered or appeared) were researched per incident from official releases and press reporting and exist for incidents; whole-exam totals are used where the single leaked paper's count is unpublished, and totals are minimums.
Category, education level and outcome are derived by a committed, re-runnable script
(scripts/paperleaks/generate_data.py) so the CSV and this page can never silently diverge.
Every incident in the dataset with its source, in chronological order. Incidents from the base Kaggle dataset cite the headline and outlet recorded there; incidents added for 2024–2026 link to the article used to verify them.