NEET-UG Exam Tainted, Retest Must be on Concrete Footing: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has said that the retest of the NEET examination has to be on a concrete footing and that the whole process of examination got tainted. A five-judge bench of the Supreme Court headed by the CJI D. Y. Chandrachud began hearing on more than 40 petitions pertaining to cheating cases and maladministration in the NEET-UG 2024 entrance examination.

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Reflecting on the issue of the ongoing probe, the bench said, On the question of revealing what the CBI has told us, it will jeopardies the investigation and people will become wise On the test NEET-UG 2024, the nation’s apex court started the critical hearing on a batch of petitions challenging the medical entrance examination arguing it has social significance.

The bench wanted the petitioners applying for cancellation, re-test and court monitored investigation into alleged mal practices in the May 5 exam to demonstrate that the paper leak was ‘systemic’ and has adversely affected the very conduct of the examination.

Each of the parties shall be allowed to present its case to the court in the afternoon. More than 23. On May 5, at 4,750 centers in 571 cities, including 14 in foreign countries, 33 lakh students appeared for the test. While filing the affidavit in the apex court earlier, the Centre and the National Testing Agency (NTA) had said that the scraping of the exam would be counter productive and would seriously jeopardize lakhs of sincere candidates who are without any evidence, indulging in any act of breach of confidentiality. NEET-UG exams are organized by the NTA which is held for admission purposes in government and private medical, dental, AYUSH, and several other related courses in various institutions in India.

Earlier, the same bench, in the same case, even while emphasizing that the integrity of the exam had been violated, it said that it is not an ‘abstract’ view and would adopt canceling the exam in its entirety only as a principle ‘at the eleventh hour’, affecting more than 230 Lacs of young students. NEET-UG hearing.