‘Approach Registry, CJI’: SC Vacation Bench Refuses To Entertain Mentioning Of Fresh Pleas Against NEET-UG Result 2024
The Supreme Court vacation bench on Tuesday refused to entertain mentioning of fresh petitions for urgent hearing in the matter pertaining to discrepancies in the NEET-UG results 2024. The top court is yet to hear the listed petition seeking cancellation and re-examination over allegations of paper leak today.
The petitioners have contended that the grant of grace marks was arbitrary and it is statistically impossible to score marks as high as 718 & 719 out of 720 that were secured by several students.
The petitions further question how 67 students from one particular Centre got full 720 marks. It also states that there are several complaints about the provisional answer key being published on April 29 by NTA.
The petitioners further highlighted the widespread complaints of question paper leak of the exam held on May 5.
The petitioners have now sought a stay of the counselling to be conducted for NEET-UG 2024 admissions till the investigation into the alleged paper leak is completed.
They have further demanded the constitution of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate the matter.
On June 8, the NTA and the Union Education Ministry announced that a four-member committee will review the results of over 1,500 candidates who were awarded grace marks to compensate for the loss of time.
It may be noted that on May 17, the Supreme Court issued notice on a petition seeking the cancellation of the test on the grounds of paper leak. However, the top court had refused to stay the results.
