The Supreme Court noted on Monday that if NEET-UG 2024 medical entrance examination leaked, it must be re-examined Question Paper leakage If through social media platforms it has been disseminated. The court adjourned the matter for further review and required the CBI to supply a status report by Wednesday while also asking they be held accountable.
Over thirty petitions relating to the NEET-UG entrance Examination are being heard by the Supreme Court. Irregularities There was evidence of malpractice during May 5 exams, with some even seeking directions to conduct them again.
An additional plea was filed before Chief Justice of India bench headed by Chief Justice of India seeking restraint against invalidating the controversial examinations from Centre and NTA in respect of more than 50 successful NEET-UG candidates from Gujarat whose results were declared recently.
Allegations of cheating marred this year’s NEET UG exam including question paper leaks and suspicious mark allocation methods leading to widespread anger and protest across the country thus some students have been asked to take NEET UG once again while postponing NEET PG test date.
It said so SC:
The court admitted that there have been paper leaks and emphasized that if the sanctity of the examination is lost then it will have to be retaken.
There cannot be a retest without examining how much this leak is. “You don’t cancel entire exam because two students cheated. So, what we will have to see is – what is nature of such leak? What is extent of such leak when we are dealing with 23 lakh students?” he said, SC judge.
SC told us about this:
“If these question papers get leaked out through Telegram, WhatsApp or electronic means then it will go like wildfire. Otherwise if there is spread over social media,” a retest must be ordered.”
CJI Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra questioned whether enough action has been taken against the miscreants and their mentors, saying, “We have to be ruthless against these miscreants and those who are beneficiaries of the leak of documents. What action has been taken by the government?”
The SC gave CBI time till Wednesday to file a status report on its probe into FIR registered in connection with document leak. The matter will be heard again on Thursday. There are several questions NTA and Centre need to answer raised by us and depending on their answers we will take a decision whether we should have retest.
The NTA was ordered by the CJI to make full disclosure in three aspects: (1) nature of leak; (2) location of leak; (3) time gap between leakage occurrence and checking process.
In a recent affidavit filed before the SC, the Center and NTA, which conducts NEET-UG, said canceling the exam would be “counter-productive” and would “seriously jeopardize” the prospects of lakhs of honest candidates in view of lack of proof showing mass cheating behavior.
To address concerns about inflated scores due to grace points allocation, an examination would be conducted for 1563 impacted candidates on June 23rd.
The NEET-UG and UGC-NET cases are now being probed by the CBI.
