NEET Hearing: The Supreme Court is regularly hearing on the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test undergraduate (NEET UG 2024) irregularities. The petitioners have submitted reports and CBI findings on the NEET paper leak and argued that the question paper was shared before the exam date. The NTA, however, claimed that there was “no paper leak”.

Senior Advocate Hooda said: “The entire country was given a paper from SBI, but in Hardayal school, papers were given from Canara Bank. The principal says that the instruction was to let the students do Canara bank paper. They gave grace marks to everyone in the school. Because of that extra mark, 6 people got 720/720.” Of this, two students from the same centre got 718. 

“They have not come clean on that. First, they said there was a delay in distribution. When they were caught, they said we were having a re-exam and didn't go into the issue of grace marks. The question of who they gave grace marks to 15,063 odd people has not been examined by this court,” he argued.

NEET-UG 2024 was taken by 23.33 lakh students on May 5 across 4,750 centres in 571 cities, including 14 cities overseas. Conducted by the NTA, NEET-UG is the entrance test for admissions to MBBS, BDS, AYUSH, and other related courses in government and private institutions nationwide.