A vacation bench consisting of Justices Vikram Nath and Ahsanuddin Amanullah presided over the hearing. Justice Ahsanuddin AmanullahThe sanctity has been affected, and we need answers!
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NEW DELHI: Today (June 11): The Supreme Court issued a notice to the National Testing Agency (NTA) in response to pleas requesting a fresh NEET-UG 2024 examination due to allegations of a paper leak.
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A vacation bench consisting of Justices Vikram Nath and Ahsanuddin Amanullah presided over the hearing.
Justice Asmanullah
The sanctity has been affected, and we need answers!
Justice Vikram Nath
Issue notice. Meanwhile, the NTA will file a response. Let the counseling proceed—we’re not stopping it.
“How much time you want? Immediately on the re-opening? Otherwise, the counselling will start.” Justice Amanullah told the NTA’s counsel
They have requested a reconducting of the NEET-UG exam through an urgent writ petition, urging the court to expedite the hearing process.
The case scheduled for its next hearing on July 8.
The matter followed after a Bihar police investigation into the NEET UG paper leak allegations. Following the declaration of the results on June 4, an unusual pattern emerged: 67 students scored a perfect 720/720, with six of them hailing from the same center.
Shivangi Mishra and nine other petitioners filed a plea on June 1 seeking the cancellation of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) UG. The NEET results were released on June 4 and have been controversial, partly due to the grace marks policy.
Following the announcement of the results, several additional petitions were submitted to the Supreme Court challenging the National Testing Agency’s decision to award grace marks to numerous candidates.
The NEET-UG 2024 exam conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) on May 5, 2024, from 2 pm to 5.20 pm IST. The exam held across 4,750 centers in 571 cities, including 14 cities abroad, with over 24 lakh candidates appearing for it.
The controversy surrounding the NEET-UG 2024 exam centers around an alleged paper leak case and a subsequent decision to compensate 1,563 students for the loss of time during the exam. Students from at least six centers in states including Meghalaya, Haryana, Chhattisgarh, Surat, and Chandigarh had complained about the loss of time during the exam.
The NTA officials stated that the students at certain centers could not complete the full 3 hours and 20 minutes of the exam due to administrative issues. These included the distribution of the wrong question paper, torn OMR sheets, or delays in the distribution of OMR sheets.
The NEET-UG 2024 results, announced on June 4, 2024, sparked a significant uproar, with numerous aspirants and parents demanding a probe and a “re-exam.” They alleged that the paper leaked at certain centers, leading to high scores for some students.
Apart from the latest petition filed in the Supreme Court, several other NEET aspirants also approached high courts and the Supreme Court with similar concerns in the wake of the controversy.
For instance, a group of candidates recently moved the Supreme Court, seeking a fresh conduct of the examination. In their plea, the petitioners alleged that the NEET-UG test held on May 5 disturbed by malpractices.
Case Title: Shivangi Mishra v. National Testing Agency and Others
