No topper from Godhra and Hazaribagh centers in NEET

The NTA admitted in SC that there was rigging at both places, and the CBI made arrests from there. 

New Delhi: After the order of the Supreme Court, the National Testing Agency, i.e., NTA, released the city- and center-wise results of the NEET UG exam on Saturday, July 20.

The result has been released on the official website, nta.ac.in. The identity of the candidates has not been revealed in it. The special thing is that no candidate is a topper from the controversial Godhra and Hazaribagh centers.

Two students from the center of Jai Jalaram School in Godhra have scored 600 marks. Apart from this, no candidate has gotten more than 600 marks. The exam was held at five exam centers in Hazaribagh. The CBI arrested Rajkumar, alias Raju, from Hazaribagh on July 16. No topper has emerged from any exam center in Hazaribagh either.

On July 18, the Supreme Court heard the NEET controversy. The court had directed the NTA to upload the results of all the candidates on the website by noon on Saturday. During this time, the NTA also admitted to the Supreme Court that there was a mess at the exam centers in Godhra and Patna.

Questions were raised about the result when six toppers emerged simultaneously from the Hardayal Public School Centre in Jhajjar, Haryana. All of them scored 720 out of 720. In the centre-wise result, none of the 494 candidates who appeared for the exam at this center has a score of 720. Let us tell you that only 287 candidates appeared in the re-examination for the 494 candidates who got grace marks.

Thursday was the third hearing in the Supreme Court on 40 petitions related to irregularities in NEET. Earlier, the hearing was held on July 8 and then on July 11. A division bench of CJI DY Chandrachud, Justice JB Pardiwala, and Justice Manoj Mishra is hearing the case. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta presented arguments on behalf of the government. Advocate Narendra Hooda is the lawyer for the petitioner.