Roop Singh Dangi became a brand-new sub-inspector back in 2006. But it looks like his hobbies were pricier than his paycheck could handle. To fund those expensive habits, he leaked the HTET exam (Haryana Teacher Eligibility Test) paper in 2008.
He took money from a group of students and handed them the answer sheet a full day before the exam. Word of the leak reached the Haryana Police. When they investigated, Roop Singh's name came up, and he was fired on the spot. Now he had no job — but those expensive tastes hadn't gone anywhere. So Roop Singh learned from his mistakes and cooked up a new plan for another leak.
This time, in the 2014 NEET exam, he had some students pass their answers via Bluetooth and got them through the test. Nobody caught wind of it. Now the tiger had tasted blood. And I mean that literally — he was pulling in 15 to 20 lakh rupees per student. So for the 2015 NEET exam, Roop Singh decided to go big. This wasn't small-time anymore; it was shaping up to be a multi-crore operation, and all in the space of three hours. He'd gotten a taste of it in 2014, and now in 2015 he was aiming even higher — not just in Haryana, but running the scam nationwide.
According to the plan, Roop Singh's friend Sunny Dahiya booked the Shakti Resort in Bahrod district, Rajasthan. There, Roop Singh brought in two "master solvers," Vikas and Sumit, on the evening of the 2nd. The exam started at 10 a.m. on the 3rd. By 10:30, Manoj and Monu — inside the exam center — had photographed the NEET paper and sent it to Roop Singh over WhatsApp. Roop Singh and his two solvers were ready and waiting. The second the paper came in, they got to work solving it. Vikas and Sumit cracked the questions one after another and fed the answer key to Roop Singh, who relayed it by phone to his team — who then passed it on, via another phone, to the students sitting inside the exam hall.
Each student had paid 15 to 20 lakh rupees for this. In return, they got a special inner vest with a tiny device sewn right into the middle of the back — a device fitted with a SIM card, connected via Bluetooth to an earpiece so small it was practically invisible. Each student also wore a watch rigged with a hidden micro-camera. And this is where the high-tech cheating really kicked in: the student would use the watch camera to film a question from the paper, then quietly read out the options — "A... B... C... D" — pausing after each letter. So if the answer was C, the student would say "A," pause, "B," pause, "C," pause — and the moment they hit the right letter, someone on Roop Singh's team, sitting with the answer key for that student's paper, would give a cough as a signal. To confirm, the student would say "C" again, get the cough again, and know for sure the answer was C — then mark it. That's how the cheating operation ran, high-tech style, across the whole country.
Now, when something's running at that scale, mistakes are bound to happen — and Roop Singh's crew wasn't immune. Someone at the exam center filed a police complaint. Police raided the center immediately and recovered mini Bluetooth devices, vests, and camera rigs from several students. When they interrogated the students and traced the Bluetooth signals, the trail led to a hotel in Panipat. Police raided that hotel and found four men — Bhupender, Sanjeet, Ravi, and Rajesh — all members of Roop Singh's team, feeding answers from the hotel straight to the exam center. Interrogating them led to more names, and raid after raid at the locations they gave up turned up even more people. In total, more than 40 people were arrested — including doctors, MBBS students, and even a few students who'd used the same Bluetooth method to crack the 2014 NEET paper. But the mastermind, Roop Singh Dangi, was still on the run. Police searched hard but came up empty. Eventually they declared him an absconder and put out a bounty of 1 lakh rupees on his head. Eleven days later, someone tipped off police to his location, and on March 31, 2016, he was caught at the Bahadurgarh bypass in Haryana.
The case then went to court. From 2015 to 2026, the case cycled through five different judges. Of the more than 40 people arrested, many were granted bail — some after 6 months, others after as long as 9 years. But the mastermind, Roop Singh, was a different story.
Here's something that struck me as odd while going through the court records: in the case orders, Roop Singh Dangi's name kept shifting — sometimes just "Roop," sometimes "Roop Kumar." Maybe it's a shorthand thing, but why would they sometimes drop it to just "Roop," and other times write "Roop Kumar"?
After his arrest on March 31, 2016, he spent the next six months in jail. Then, for a full year after that, his name vanished entirely from the court order records.
He was finally granted bail on July 20, 2018, and stayed out on bail for the next seven years. Then, out of nowhere, on January 19, 2026, a man named Jagbir informed Constable Lalit that Roop Singh Dangi had died on July 12, 2025.
The court then requested a death report from the SHO. The constable submitted the death certificate to the SHO at PGIMS Rohtak. The SHO forwarded the death report to the court, and in 2026, the court dropped the case against Roop Singh Dangi. But the case as a whole still hasn't reached a final verdict — it's still ongoing. The next hearing is scheduled for July 8, 2026.
If the 2015 case still hasn't been resolved, how can we expect the 2026 case to be? Forget 2026 — when will justice come for the 2016, 2021, and 2024 cases? And this is just NEET — who knows how many other exams get leaked. Social media makes noise for a few days, but justice never really arrives. And even when it does show up, it comes so late that it might as well not have. This is the state of our judicial system today: over 64 lakh cases are currently pending in high courts across the country.
What this case really shows is that neither our judiciary nor our government seems to actually care about students.
Everything I've written here comes from court orders, police statements, media reports, and social media that I've read and researched myself.
But I still feel like something's missing — I haven't been able to get a statement from Roop Singh Dangi's wife. If she happens to be reading this article, I'd genuinely like to hear the full story from her. I know our judicial system isn't perfect — sometimes innocent people do get wrongly convicted. And that's not really the judiciary's fault, since courts rule based on the evidence presented to them. But if evidence gets tampered with or erased, an innocent person can end up looking guilty.
So I have a few questions for Roop Singh Dangi's wife:
How did Roop Singh Dangi actually die? Is it accurate to call him the mastermind behind the 2015 NEET paper leak? And is this whole story even true?