NEET UG 2024: SC Hearing
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NEET Row: The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the National Testing Agency (NTA) to publish on its website the marks obtained by all the students who appeared in Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test undergraduate exam (NEET-UG) 2024 and said the identity of students should be masked.
A bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra ordered that result should be published separately, city and centre-wise by Saturday 12 noon.
The apex court passed the direction to the NTA to publish the results, after the petitioners-students urged it to direct the testing agency to publish the result of all students to bring in some transparency.
The top court in its order stated, "The petitioners have submitted that it would be appropriate if the results of the NEET-UG 24 exam is published on the website so as to bring about some transparency on the centre-wise marks obtained by candidates. We direct the NTA to publish the marks obtained by students in the NEET-UG 2024 exam while at the same time ensuring that the identity of the students is masked. The results should be declared in relation to each centre and city separately."
The bench said it will continue the hearing of pleas alleging paper leak and malpractice in NEET-UG 2024 exams, on July 22. The top court held a day-long hearing in the NEET-UG matter.
The apex court was hearing a batch of pleas seeking direction to recall NEET- UG 2024 results and to conduct the examination afresh, alleging paper leakage and malpractices in the test held.
Aspirants had approached the top court and raised the issue of leakage of question paper, awarding compensatory marks and anomaly in question of NEET-UG.
NEET-UG examination, conducted by NTA, is the pathway for admissions into MBBS, BDS and AYUSH and other related courses in government and private institutions across the country.
The NEET-UG, 2024 was held across 4,750 centres on May 5 and around 24 lakh candidates appeared in it. During the hearing, apex court posed several questions to NTA regarding alleged paper leak and malpractices in NEET exam.
It asked NTA about how many students out of 23.33 lakhs who appeared for the exam changed their centre.
NTA said that in the name of corrections, students change centres and 15,000 students utilised the window for corrections.
NTA said that students can change only the city and no candidate can choose the centre. Centre is allotted by the system and centre's allotment is only two days before the exam, so nobody knows which centre is going to be allotted, it added.
Petitioners-candidates counsel argued that question papers were dispatched to the centres on April 24 through a private courier company and reached the SBI and Canara banks on May 3.
To this, Cli said that the papers were dispatched on April 24 and received on May 3, which makes the time gap about nine days. The top court was informed that question papers were sent to SBI and Canara bank branches in 571 cities and there were 4,750 centres.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said that CBI has investigated the entire chain of event from the printers to the centres.
