NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday asked IIT Delhi, Director to constitute a team of three experts on the subject of Physics to ascertain correct answer of a question in the NEET UG, 2024 exam and inform of its decision by 12 noon, Tuesday.
A bench of Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud, and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra issued the order as some of the petitioners said that as per the old NCERT syllabus one option was correct, but the new syllabus of NCERT indicated another option as correct but the National Testing Agency treated both the options as correct.
The court scheduled the matter for further hearing on Tuesday.
The National Testing Agency and the Centre are expected to put forth their submission on pleas seeking re-test of May 5 examination due to paper leakage and other irregularities.
During the hearing, petitioners, seeking a direction for re-test, claimed the NEET-UG exam was held, without any procedure being followed. There was a complete systemic failure and no address verification, no CCTV camera monitoring at any of the locations, they alleged.
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"It was having a complete systemic failure, no address verification, no CCTV camera monitoring at any of the locations There has been a live monitoring they said. but a wrong question paper was distributed in Sawai Madhopur and there was no surveillance. It is on social media they get to know about the wrong question paper" senior advocate Narendra Hooda, for some petitioners contended before the court.
While complying with the court's direction, the NTA published the complete list, without roll number, as it had to be masked for privacy. No all india ranks have been given by NTA, he added.
The counsel also claimed the Bihar police investigation after recording statements, found that the paper was leaked on May 4.
The bench also noted statements of the accused indicated students were gathered to memorise on evening of May 4 and that means leak of NEET-UG 2024 happened before May 4.
The court also noted that the question paper ferried by e-rickshaw was an established fact but the little nuance is that the picture that was distributed was of the OMR sheet and not the question paper.
The counsel claimed the manner of conducting the entire exam did not inspire confidence. At every stage there was a possibility of leak, they admitted that there was a leak and that dissemination happened on WhatsApp.
On July 18, the court had directed the NTA to publish centre-wise marks obtained by students in the NEET UG exams to allow some transparency.
