NEET UG 2024: Supreme Court seeks NTA disclosure on paper leak, next hearing on July 11

Ranging from the cancellation of the exam to the complete retest, the Supreme Court today will hear 38 total petitions filed against the NEET UG 2024 examination today.

"It is submitted that if the entire examination process is cancelled without there being any tangible factors warranting such actions it would be highly detrimental to the larger public interest involving the academic career of lakhs of students who have attempted the examination fairly without any wrongdoing or even an allegation of wrongdoing," the NTA said.

The petitioners against the NEET UG 2024 examination have sought a complete retest, alleging that the widespread paper leak has hurt the sanctity of the examination. Other petitioners have sought the cancellation of the exam altogether.

NTA, which is responsible for conducting NEET UG, said that the entirety of the exam was carried out fairly and with due confidentiality without any illegal practices, and the claim of "mass malpractice" during the exam is "completely unfounded, misleading, and lacks any basis".

NTA, in its affidavit to the Supreme Court, said, "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."

Centre told Supreme Court in an affidavit, “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.”

A Supreme Court bench, comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, will hear a total 38 petitions on the NEET 2024 undergraduate examination today, according to the cause list of the court.