NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought a response from the National Testing Agency (NTA) on a plea seeking a fresh NEET-UG exam 2024 on the grounds of “paper leak” and other “malpractices”.
The top court said the “sanctity of the exam seemed to have been affected” so it needed an answer from the NTA.
The plea alleged that NEET-UG, 2024, was riddled with “malpractices” as various instances of paper leaks have come to the knowledge of the petitioners.
The alleged paper leak was violative of Article 14 (right to equality) under the Constitution as it gave an undue advantage to some candidates over others who chose to attempt the examination in a fair manner, it said
The Supreme Court refused to stay the counselling process for the selected candidates and posted the case for hearing on July 8.
“Let the counselling start, we are not stopping the counselling,” a vacation bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Ahsanuddin Amanullah remarked.
Advocate Mathews J Nedumpara, appearing for the petitioners, had urged the bench to stay the counselling process.
“The Supreme Court said that the sanctity of the exam is compromised that means somewhere they also feel that there have been some kind of issues in the examination and asked NTA to answer this before 8 July but they have not given any relief on the counselling,” said Alakh Pandey, CEO, of Physics Wallah on the Supreme Court’s hearing.