The Supreme Court docket started listening to a batch of petitions alleging paper leakage and malpractices within the NEET-UG 2024 examination, held on Might 5 this 12 months. A bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra are listening to the case at present. On July 15, the apex courtroom adjourned the listening to for Thursday to allow the petitioners to file their responses to the affidavits filed by the Centre and the Nationwide Testing Company (NTA).
It was famous within the order that a few of the events within the case have not obtained the affidavits filed by the Centre and NTA and they should put together their responses earlier than arguments.
On July 11, the Central authorities filed an affidavit within the case denying any mass malpractice within the NEET-UG 2024 examination.
Central Authorities’s Affidavit
Within the affidavit, the Centre stated the information analytics accomplished by the Indian Institute of Expertise Madras exhibits that there’s neither any indication of mass malpractice nor a localised set of candidates being benefitted resulting in irregular scores. It additionally stated that counselling will likely be carried out in 4 rounds ranging from the third week of July. “For any candidate, whether it is discovered that he/she has been the beneficiary of any malpractice, the candidature of such particular person can be cancelled at any stage through the counselling course of and even afterwards,” the affidavit acknowledged.
The NTA in its affidavit had additionally stated that the video displaying a photograph of the NEET-UG examination paper leaked on Telegram on Might Four was faux. “The timestamp was manipulated to create a misunderstanding of an early leak,” it had added.
It stated that NTA has carried out an evaluation of distribution of marks of candidates in NEET-UG 2024 on the Nationwide, State and Metropolis ranges and likewise Centre stage. “This evaluation signifies that the distribution of marks is sort of regular and there appears to be no extraneous issue, which might affect the distribution of marks,” it had submitted.
Aspirants Approached SC
Aspirants had approached the highest courtroom and raised the problem of leakage of query paper, awarding compensatory marks and anomaly in query of NEET-UG.
All About NEET-UG Examination
NEET-UG examination, carried out by NTA, is the pathway for admissions into MBBS, BDS and AYUSH and different associated programs in authorities and personal establishments throughout the nation. The NEET-UG, 2024 was held throughout 4,750 centres on Might 5 and round 24 lakh candidates appeared for the examination.