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PremiumNEET UG 2024 Hearing Highlights: The Supreme Court on July 23 refused to order a re-exam of NEET UG 2024 saying that at the present stage there is absence of material on record to lead to conclusion that result of the exam is vitiated or that there is a systemic breach of the sanctity of th exam.
“Data on record is not indicative of a systemic leak of the question paper which would indicate a disruption of the sanctity of the exam," the court said while hearing on the a batch of pleas seeking cancellation, re-test and a court-monitored probe into the NEET UG 2024 exam held on May 5.
A bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra is hearing the matter.
The Court said that during the hearing it has realised that directing a fresh NEET UG for the present year would be replete with serious consequences which will be for over 24 lakh students who appeared in this exam and cause disruption of admission schedule, cascading effects on the course of medical education, impact on availability of qualified medical professionals in the future and seriously disadvantageous for the marginalised group for whom reservation was made in allocation of seats.
During the hearing, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) confirmed before the top court that the paper leak in the NEET UG case had taken place in Hazaribagh centre in Jharkhand. A CBI office said in the court that some gadgets of the involved gang were burnt, and a few others were recovered on July 22 which will now be investigated.
Earlier, Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud said that the court had received the IIT Delhi report led by director Prof Banerjee and it says option 4 is the correct answer.
On July 22, the top court asked the Director of IIT, Delhi to constitute a three-member expert committee to give their opinion regarding the correct answer to an multiple choice question of NEET-UG 2024, for which the NTA awarded marks for two options.
JPC probe demanded
An association of central university professors has demanded the constitution of a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to probe into the alleged irregularities in the NEET UG 2024 exam. The Federation of Central Universities Teachers’ Association (FEDCUTA) also called for immediate scrapping of the National Testing Agency (NTA) that conducts the exam for admission to medical colleges.
NTA's Additional Affidavit
In its affidavit, the NTA has refuted petitioners’ allegation of conflict of interest on the part of IIT-M Director, who prepared the data analytics report. The petitioners in the paper leak case have also filed an Intervention Application (IA) in the Supreme Court. The application has requested a retest for the nearly 3.5 lakh top scorers in the test. The petitioners said that they too have scored fairly high marks on the test — from 650 to 680 out of the total 720 marks.
What happened on July 18?
In the July 18 hearing, the top court also flagged the NTA's “hypothesis" that the paper was “leaked", solved and memorised by students within just 45 minutes. The lawyer appearing for one of the petitioner alleged that there was increase in the syllabus for the exam and the changes were notified just few months before. He also said the transportation of the question papers was compromised in Hazaribag.
Earlier in the day, CJI DY Chandrachud told the petitioners that they needed to prove that the paper leak was ‘systemic’ and affected the entire examination so as to warrant the cancellation of the entire exam. The re-examination has to be on concrete footing that the sanctity of entire test was affected, the CJI said, according to a report on legal news website LiveLaw.
What is the government's version?
The Union government has, in its affidavit, informed the Supreme Court that there was no evidence of widespread cheating or specific groups of candidates unfairly benefiting from abnormal scores in NEET UG 2024. The government also informed the Court that the Ministry of Education had requested IIT Madras to conduct comprehensive data analytics of the NEET-UG 2024 results.
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.
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NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said in the Supreme Court that the decision of awarding grace marks was not a correct decision. 'According to me, it was not a correct decision. Apparently, there is a decision, if there is a time problem, grace marks be given. Later, the decision was recalled and a re-test was done,' Mehta said during the hearing on Monday.
NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: Supreme Court is hearing cases relating to alleged paper leaks and malpractices in the NEET-UG 2024 exam. Senior advocate Narender Hooda appearing for petitioners-students counsel tells the Supreme Court that Bihar police investigation statements say that the leak was on May 4 and was prior to the deposit of question papers with respective banks.
CJI DY Chandrachud observes that the statements of the accused indicate students were gathered to memorise on evening of May 4 and that means leak of NEET-UG 2024 happened before May 4. (ANI)
NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud said on Monday that statements of petitioners on NEET UG ‘paper leak’ allegation are at variance. “One statement says the leak happened on the 4th night, second statement says it was received on WhatsApp on the 5th morning. Amit Anand's statements are at variance," the CJI said, according to legal news agency LiveLaw.
NEET-UG 2024 Hearing Live: Question paper was being ferried in an e-rickshaw, there is no doubt about that, the Chief Justice of India said during the hearing on Monday.
NEET-UG 2024 Hearing Live: The SC bench comprising Chief Justice of India, DY Chandrachud, Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra read the statements recorded by the Bihar Police.
NEET-UG 2024 Hearing Live: Congress Member of Parliament (MP) Manickam Tagore has given an adjournment motion notice in Lok Sabha, demanding a discussion on the ongoing controversy over the alleged irregularities in the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) and University Grants Commission-National Eligibility Test (UGC-NET) conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA).
Tagore has, in his notice, urged the House to suspend all listed business of the day to discuss the "unprecedented cases of paper leaks in conduct of exams including NEET-UG and UGC NET and the failure of National Testing Agency (NTA)."
NEET-UG 2024 Hearin Live: The Opposition has been demading a discussion on NEET-UG 2024 row in the Parliament. In the all-party meeting held on Sunday ahead of the Budget Session,. DMK’s Tiruchi Siva slammed the government for its handling of the exam and pressed for a discussion on the issue. The Opposition rallied together on the issue, demanding a detailed statement from the government on the irregularities, during the session that begins on Monday.
NEET-UG 2024 Hearing Live: After the NTA released on its website scores of over 23 lakh candidates who appeared for the NEET-UG exam, petitioners in the paper leak case have filed an Intervention Application (IA) in the Supreme Court. The application has requested a retest for the nearly 3.5 lakh top scorers in the test. The petitioners said that they too have scored fairly high marks on the test — from 650 to 680 out of the total 720 marks. The petitioners also said they are aware that conducting a retest is not an easy task, and has several ramifications and therefore a practical solution needs to be thought of.
NEET-UG 2024 Verdict Live: The Supreme Court is scheduled to take up 40 petitions today, including the pleas filed by the NTA seeking transfer of cases pending against it in various High Courts on the NEET-UG row to the apex court to avoid multiplicity of litigations.
NEET-UG 2024 Verdict Live: The National Testing Agency (NTA), the central agency that conducts NEET-UG, had filed an additional affidavit in the Supreme Court in the matter, according to legal news website LiveLaw. In the affidavit, the NTA has refuted petitioners’ allegation of conflict of interest on the part of IIT-M Director, who prepared the data analytics report. NTA says Director of the IIT holding JEE(Advanced) in a particular year is an ex-officio member of the NTA Governing Body. IIT-M holds JEE(A) for 2024, LiveLaw reported. However, core functions of the NTA are carried out by the Managing Committee of the NTA. Governing Body has role only on policy matters. The IIT Director who made the report hasn’t attended any NTA General Body meeting after December 2022.
NEET-UG 2024 Verdict Live: The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Saturday, July 20, published the centre and city-wise NEET UG Result 2024 on its official website — exams.nta.ac.in/NEET/ and neet.ntaonline.in. These results have been released in compliance with Supreme Court's order. Here is a step-by-step guide for checking the results:
Step 1: Visit the official website — exams.nta.ac.in/NEET/.
Step 2: On the home page, click on NEET UG Result 2024 link.
Step 3: Enter login credentials.
Step 4: Click on ‘Submit’ button.
Step 5: Your result will be displayed on the screen.
NEET-UG 2024 Verdict Live: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested two medical students and another individual on July 20 in connection with the NEET-UG paper leak case. The development came less than two days after the probe agency nabbed four AIIMS Patna MBBS students who had acted as ‘solvers’ for the main accused. The total number of people arrested by the agency in six related cases has now risen to 21.
NEET-UG 2024 Verdict Live: In the previous hearing, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the Court that the NEET-UG 2024 counselling is expected to begin around July 24 and will span two to three months.
NEET UG-2024 Verdict Live: The Supreme Court will today resume the hearing on a batch of pleas seeking cancellation, re-test and a court-monitored probe into the NEET-UG 2024 exam held on May 5 this year. The Apex Court bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra are hearing the matter.
