NEET-UG Controversy: The Supreme Courtroom on Thursday sought response from the Centre, the Nationwide Testing Company (NTA) and others relating to petitions calling for the cancellation of NEET-UG 2024 and a court-supervised investigation into alleged irregularities within the medical entrance examination.
A trip bench of Justices Vikram Nath and SVN Bhatti additionally sought response from the concerned events relating to separate requests made by the NTA to switch some ongoing instances from the excessive courts to the apex courtroom.
These pleas filed by NTA and different petitioners is scheduled for listening to on July 8.
One of many petitions, filed by 20 college students who appeared for the medical entrance examination crammed a petition requesting for the NTA for re-conduction of examination.
Earlier on June 18, in the course of the listening to of separate pleas on NEET-UG 2024 examinations, the apex courtroom mentioned that even when there was a ‘0.001% negligence’ on anybody’s half, it is going to be investigated.
Final week, whereas addressing separate petitions regarding points with NEET-UG 2024, the Supreme Courtroom requested responses from the Centre and the NTA relating to a plea for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry into allegations of a query paper leak and different examination irregularities.
The NTA conducts all India pre-medical entrance examination together with a number of different essential and entrance stage assessments. The examination was held on Could 5 throughout 4,750 centres with 24 lakh candidates showing for it.
On June 19 the NTA introduced the cancellation of UGC-NET exams as a consequence of considerations relating to ‘integrity compromise.’
Whereas listening to separate petitions elevating grievances over the NEET-UG 2024, the apex courtroom had final week sought responses from the Centre and the NTA on a plea for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into allegations of query paper leak and different irregularities within the examination.
(Primarily based on inputs from PTI)
