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SC declines re-test of NEET UG, 2024

By Jhanak Sharma      24 July, 2024 10:00 AM      0 Comments
SC declines re-test of NEET UG 2024

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to order a re-test for NEET UG, 2024, finding that the materials available on record do not indicate that the sanctity of the entire examination was affected due to incidents of paper leakage.

A bench of Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra said that the data on record is not indicative of a systemic leak of the question paper.

"We are of the considered view ordering cancellation of the entire examination is neither justified on the basis of settled principles propounded by this court on the basis of materials on record," the bench said.

Pronouncing  the order in open court, the bench said that it is a fact that leak of NEET UG 2024 paper took place at Hazaribagh and at Patna. However, the CBI's reports indicated only 155 students from Hazaribagh and Patna were beneficiaries of it.

"On the material placed on record, at the present stage, there is absence of materials on record to show results of the exam was vitiated or there was a systemic breach in the conduct of the exam," the CJI said in the order.

The court also said directing a fresh NEET UG for the present year would be replete with serious consequences for over 24 lakh students who appeared in this exam.

Also Read: NEET-UG: SC asks IIT-Delhi to apprise it of correct answer of a question where two options are found as correct

The court also considered factors like the disruption of admission schedule, cascading effects on the course of medical education, impact on availability of qualified medical professionals in the future and seriously disadvantageous marginalised group for whom reservation was made in allocation of seats.

The court passed its order, after hearing a batch of petitions by students, who sought re-test and proper investigation into the alleged paper leak

The bench noted that the NEET was conducted on May 5 and results were declared on June 4.

Around 23 lakh 33 thousand candidates appeared for the exam. These students were competing for 1.08 Lakh seats of which 56000 seats were in government colleges, and the remaining in private institutions.

The court heard the arguments for four days from Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the Centre and the NTA and senior advocates Narendra Hooda, Sanjay Hegde and Advocate Mathews J Nedumpara among others.

Earlier in the day, in compliance with the apex court's order, the IIT Delhi Director has filed a report on stating that option four was the correct answer of a question in Physics question paper in the NEET-UG exam, 2024.

The court rejected the National Testing Agency's decision to treat two answers as correct due to ambiguity in question. It directed the NTA to re-tally the results in terms of the report by the IIT Delhi's experts committee report.

Earlier, amid question mark over sanctity of the examination, the Union Education Ministry had told the court a technical analysis of NEET UG, 2024 data carried out by IIT Madras showed that neither was there any indication of mass malpractice, nor were there local set of candidates being benefitted with abnormal scores.

The National Testing Agency had also claimed before the Supreme Court the distribution of marks in NEET UG, 2024 at national, state, city and centre levels was found to be quite normal with no external factor affecting it.



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