The Supreme Court is to hear the plea related to irregularities in the NEET UG exam today. A total of 38 petitions will be heard in the Supreme court. Of these, 34 petitions have been filed by students, teachers and coaching institutes, while the National Testing Agency has filed 4 petitions. A division bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, Justice Manoj Mishra and Justice JB Pardiwala will hear these petitions.
Earlier on Saturday, the counseling of NEET UG was deferred until further notice. The counselling was to start on July and 6 and it got delayed until further notice.
Bihar Police had arrested 13 people on May 5 itself on suspicion of paper leak. However, the National Testing Agency (NTA) denied the allegation of paper leak on May 6, a day after the exam.
The first petition was filed to investigate the paper leak 8 days after the exam
NEET candidate Shivangi Mishra filed a petition in the Supreme Court on May 13 to investigate the paper leak. After this, NTA announced the result of the exam on June 4, 10 days before the scheduled date.
NTA conducted the re-exam on 23 June, on the same day CBI registered the first FIR.
After releasing the result on 4 June, it was revealed that some candidates got 718, 719 marks out of 720. NTA formed a panel to investigate this on 8 June. After this, on 13 June, NTA announced to conduct the exam again for 1563 candidates with grace marks. Out of these, 813 candidates appeared in the exam while 750 candidates did not appear in the exam. On the other hand, on the same day CBI registered the first FIR in the paper leak case