New Delhi: The National Testing Agency (NTA) has issued a stern warning to the NEET UG 2026 candidates, their parents, coaching institutes, and consultants against the creation, submission or circulation of fabricated, digitally altered, or AI-generated OMR answer sheets, scorecards, or other examination documents.

The agency has cautioned that such acts constitute cognisable offences under the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024, besides attracting penal provisions under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023, and the Information Technology Act, 2000.

The National Testing Agency conducted NEET (UG) 2026 on 21st June 2026, and has, in accordance with the prescribed transparency mechanism, uploaded on its website the provisional answer keys, the recorded responses and the scanned images of each candidate’s OMR answer sheet, and has also individually emailed to every registered candidate a scanned copy of his or her own OMR answer sheet at the e-mail address given at the time of registration.However, as per the public notice, it has come to the notice of the NTA, after the declaration of the result, a number of representations have been received from candidates or from persons purporting to act on their behalf, alleging that the OMR answer sheet uploaded against their Roll Number, or emailed to them, does not belong to them, or has been "interchanged", or shows a substantially lower number of answers than the candidate claims to have made.

In many such representations, the sender has enclosed an image of an OMR answer sheet, or of a score card, said to be the "correct" document, and has sought a re-evaluation of the result on the basis of that image.

Source: Medical Dialogues – July 20, 2026