NEET 2024 SC Hearing Live: Court directs NTA to make disclosure on 3 aspects

NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: The Supreme Court hearing of pleas on the NEET UG exam has started.

NEET 2024 Supreme Court Hearing Live: In an affidavit, the National Testing Agency (NTA) said the claim of "mass malpractice" during the exam is “completely unfounded, misleading, and lacks any basis”.

“The cancellation of the entire examination on the basis of the aforesaid factor, would be hugely counterproductive and significantly harmful to the larger public interest, especially to the career prospects of the qualified candidates,” it added.

NEET 2024 Supreme Court Hearing Live: The Supreme Court bench has convened for hearings. The pleas related to the NEET UG exam are listed as item 31.

NEET 2024 Supreme Court Hearing Live: In February, Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha passed an anti-cheating bill to prevent fraudulent practices such as paper leaks in recruitment and other competitive exams. The Punishments under the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024 proposes imprisonment for three to five years with a fine of up to ₹10 lakh. Read all about it here.

Hindustan Times conducted a poll to know the public opinion on whether the NEET 2024 exam should be scrapped or not. Fifty-six per cent of the participants said yes while 40 per cent responded that the re-exam for a few students was the correct approach.

NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: The Chief Justice has asked a council to mention the petition filed by 56 students from Gujarat opposing the pleas to re-conduct the NEET-UG exam when the matter is taken up, Live Law has reported.

NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: On June 18, the Supreme Court said that even if there was "0.001 per cent negligence" on the part of anyone in the conduct of the NEET UG examination, it should be thoroughly dealt with.

The hearing of petitions for result cancellation and re-test will begin soon.

NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: During a previous hearing of the NEET UG exam irregularities, the National Testing Agency informed the Supreme Court that the UG medical counselling will begin on July 6.

However, it has been delayed, and as per officials, the process is likely to begin by the end of July.

NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: The petitioners have requested the cancellation of the NEET UG results and a re-examination, alleging paper leak and other malpractices.

The issue of grace marks was addressed in a previous hearing when the centre informed the compensatory marks given to around 1,600 candidates have been cancelled and a re-test will be held for them.

Those who are not willing to take the re-test can keep their original scores (without grace marks), it said.

The result of the re-test has already been announced.

NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: The Education Ministry said the Centre was committed to protecting the interests of lakhs of students who have attempted the question papers fairly and after years of hardwork, without trying to obtain any illegal advantage.

"Therefore, while genuine concerns based on proven facts must be addressed, other prayers merely based on conjectures and surmises, without any basis in fact, must be rejected so as not to cause unnecessary suffering and distress to honest examinees and their families," the ministry said.

(PTI)

NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: The Centre and the National Testing Agency (NTA), recently told the Supreme Court that scrapping the exam would be "counterproductive" and "seriously jeopardise" lakhs of honest candidates in the absence of any proof of large-scale breach of confidentiality.

NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: The CJI-led Supreme Court bench is expected to begin the hearing of the pleas on NEET exam irregularities soon. Stay tuned for the latest updates.

NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: The NEET UG re-test was conducted on June 23, 2024 and the result was announced on June 30, 2024.

On June 11, on a plea seeking a fresh exam on the grounds of alleged question paper leak and other malpractices, the top court observed that the sanctity of the test was affected and sought responses from the Centre and the NTA on the petition.

The top court then refused to stay the UG medical counselling process.

Hearing separate pleas on June 18, the SC said even if there was "0.001 per cent negligence" on the part of anyone in the conduct of the examination, it should be thoroughly dealt with.

On June 20, the top court sought the responses of the Centre, the NTA and others on a slew of petitions, including those seeking the scrapping of the NEET-UG and a court-monitored probe.

The Centre and the NTA had, on June 13, told the court that they had cancelled the grace marks and decided to hold a re-test.

(Inputs from PTI)

NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: The Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) is expected to begin NEET UG counselling by the end of this month. The official schedule has not been released yet.

NEET UG 2024 SC Hearing Live: A total of 67 students scored 720 marks in NEET UG 2024, with six from a Haryana centre figuring in the list, raising suspicions about irregularities in the examination.

However, the number of toppers reduced to 61 from 67 after the re-test.

In the affidavit, the Education Ministry said that there was no proof of a large-scale breach of confidentiality and that scrapping the test would not be rational.

"Scrapping the exam in its entirety would seriously jeopardise the lakhs of honest candidates who attempted the question paper in 2024," the ministry said.

In the affidavit, the government mentioned that it has constituted a high-level committee of experts to suggest effective measures for conducting transparent, smooth, and fair examinations by the NTA.

The panel will make recommendations on reforms in the mechanism of the examination process, improvement in data security protocols and structure, and the functioning of the National Testing Agency, it said.

(Source: PTI)

NEET 2024 SC Hearing Live: In a separate affidavit, the National Testing Agency (NTA) reiterated that the cancellation of the exam will be counterproductive and harmful to the larger public interest, especially to the career prospects of the qualified candidates.

The claim of mass malpractice during the exam is “completely unfounded, misleading, and lacks any basis”, it added.

(Source: PTI)

NEET 2024 SC Hearing Live: In a recent affidavit, the centre said scrapping the exam would jeopardize lakhs of candidates who attempted it.

"It is also submitted that at the same time, in the absence of any proof of any large-scale breach of confidentiality in a pan-India examination, it would not be rational to scrap the entire examination and the results already declared," the Centre said.

"Scrapping the exam in entirety would seriously jeopardise the lakhs of honest candidates who attempted the question paper in 2024," it added.

NEET 2024 SC Hearing Live: As per the cause list for July 8 uploaded on the SC website, the bench is scheduled to hear a total of 38 petitions related to the exam.

NEET 2024 SC Hearing Live: The Supreme Court will hear today a batch of petitions related to the alleged irregularities in the conduct of NEET UG 2024. The matter will be placed before a three-judge bench led by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra.