The Supreme Court is hearing a batch of petitions alleging paper leakage and malpractices in the National Eligibility Entrance Test- Undergraduate exam, conducted on May 5 this year.
New Delhi: Any order for conducting the NEET-UG 2024 afresh has to be on the concrete footing that the sanctity of the entire exam was affected, the Supreme Court said on Thursday. The Supreme Court is hearing a batch of petitions alleging paper leakage and malpractices in the National Eligibility Entrance Test- Undergraduate exam, conducted on May 5 this year.
A bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra on Thursday began the hearing the case on a batch of petitions related to the controversy-ridden medical entrance exam NEET-UG 2024, saying that it has “social ramifications”. The apex court adjourned the cases listed ahead of the NEET-UG pleas and said, “We will open the case today. Lakhs of young students are waiting for this, let us hear and decide.”
The bench asked the petitioners seeking cancellation, re-test and a court-monitored probe into the alleged irregularities in the May 5 exam to show that the paper leak was “systemic” and affected the entire examination, warranting cancellation.
“Re-examination has to be on concrete footing that the sanctity of the entire test was affected,” the Chief Justice of India added. On the issue of the ongoing probe, the bench said, “The CBI probe is on. If what the CBI has told us is revealed, it will affect the investigation and people will become wise.”
(Stay tuned. This is a developing story).