[NEET Result Controversy] HC Orders NTA To Produce Original OMR Sheet Of Student

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The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court requested the National Testing Agency (NTA) to produce the original records of a student who claims she has not yet received her NEET result.

[NEET Result Controversy] HC Orders NTA to Produce Original OMR Sheet of Student

Allahabad: On Wednesday (June 12th): The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court requested the National Testing Agency (NTA) to produce the original records of a student who claims she has not yet received her NEET result.

The bench has scheduled the next hearing for June 18.

Justice Rajesh Singh Chauhan, presiding over a vacation bench, issued the order in response to a writ petition filed by student Aayushi Patel.

In her petition, Patel alleges that the NTA failed to declare her results and that her OMR sheet was torn. She has requested a manual evaluation of her OMR sheet and an inquiry into the NTA’s actions. Additionally, she has called for a halt to the exam counseling process.

Patel asserts that her OMR sheet was intact, but the NTA informed her that her result would not be declared because the sheet was torn.

In opposition, the NTA presented the original OMR sheet, scorecard, and attendance sheet of the petitioner, questioning why the petitioner continued to send e-mails despite these documents being intact.

During the hearing, the court noted a discrepancy between the application number on the student’s OMR sheet and the one in her e-mails, and consequently, ordered both parties to present the original documents at the next hearing.

In the NEET-UG exams conducted in May, a discrepancy identified in Question No. 29 of Test Booklet Code R5, where both options 2 and 4 deemed correct. This contradicted the exam instructions, which specified that only one option could be correct for each Multiple Choice Question (MCQ).

As a result of this error, the NTA decided to award marks to all students who selected either of the supposed correct answers. This approach benefited those who guessed or selected what they believed the right answer.

The petitioner argues that the NTA’s decision unfairly discriminates against candidates who followed the instructions and chose not to answer Question No. 29, given its two correct options.

The NEET-UG exam results, released on June 4, sparked controversy when reports revealed that an unexpectedly high number of students (67 students, according to various sources) achieved perfect scores of 720 out of 720.