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NEET UG 2024: Supreme Court seeks NTA disclosure on paper leak, next hearing on July 11
NEET UG 2024 Hearing Highlights: Supreme Court said leak of exam papers is now an admitted fact, but it asks to prove whether it affected the whole exam.
- 1:09 PM IST, July 8NEET hearing to commence at 2, bench rises for lunch break
- 1:06 PM IST, July 8‘Will first hear those asking for re-test,’ says CJI
- 12:58 PM IST, July 8NEET hearing begins in Supreme Court
- 12:54 PM IST, July 8NEET listed as item 31, hearing ongoing for item 24
- 12:38 PM IST, July 8Students urge Supreme Court not to cancel NEET
- 12:14 PM IST, July 8When will SC hearing start?
- 11:19 AM IST, July 8Supreme Court hearing begins
- 11:02 AM IST, July 867 toppers for NEET-UG examination
- 10:13 AM IST, July 8NEET-UG, PG counselling delayed
- 9:36 AM IST, July 8NTA on cancellation of exam
- 9:03 AM IST, July 8What do the petitioners want
- 8:22 AM IST, July 8Supreme Court hearing today
NEET UG 2024 Hearing Highlights: The Supreme Court said on Monday that if the integrity of the NEET-UG 2024 medical entrance exam is compromised and its question paper leaked through social media, a re-test must be considered. Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, leading the bench, further said that if the leak occurred via platforms like Telegram, WhatsApp, or other electronic means, it could rapidly disseminate. A bench consisting of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, along with Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra heard the matter and posted it for next hearing on Thursday....Read More
Recently, the Centra and the National Testing Agency (NTA), responsible for conducting the NEET examination, 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.
The NEET UG 2024 examination was conducted across hundreds of centres in India on May 5, and the results of the same were declared on June 4, ten days ahead of schedule. The NTA awarded full marks in the exam to dozens of students, with 67 toppers for the medical exam this year.
This raised protests and echoes of a NEET re-test by students and organisations, alleging irregularities in the marking system used by NTA. Many students also alleged paper leak in multiple centres, saying that most of the toppers and high-scorers belonged to one specific region or exam centre.
The Centre and the NTA on June 13 told the court that they had cancelled the grace marks awarded to 1,563 candidates. They were given the option to either take a re-test or forgo the compensatory marks awarded for loss of time.
