The Apex court is currently seized with several cases, mainly on an application for the re-sitting or outright nullifying the 2024 NEET-UG entrance exam for undergraduate degree courses in Medicine.
The hearing has cast aspersions on the Centre and the National Testing Agency (NTA) ‘s stance in the paper leakage scandal case.
At stake were concerns over the leakage of question papers and other controversies related to the awarding of ‘grace marks’ during the examination in which about two-and-a-quarter lakh medical hopefuls sat. The Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the NTA, stated that at least at one centre in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, an unidentified person got into the question papers.
However, the Supreme Court bench questioned how 180 questions could be solved in 45 minutes. The petitioning candidates have now demanded that the NEET-UG 2024 exam be withdrawn, saying there has been a systematic failure in conducting the exam.
The court explained that it could only demand that test results be invalidated if the May 5 exam’s sanctity would be compromised to the extent that it would be “lost to a large extent” owing to the leaked questions.
It has the bench of disapproval on the re-test, which classified that certain circumstances would say no to it. The next hearing is to be conducted on 22 of July. In this case, the court seems to be giving the matter ‘social significance’ coupled with the fact that thousands of students are anxiously waiting for a determination on the same.
