New Delhi:
The Supreme Court commenced hearing on Monday more than 30 pleas related to the controversy-ridden medical entrance exam NEET-UG 2024, including those alleging irregularities and malpractices in the May 5 test and seeking a direction to conduct it afresh.
A bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra is also hearing a separate plea of over 50 successful Gujarat-based NEET-UG candidates seeking a direction to restrain the Centre and the National Testing Agency (NTA) from cancelling the controversy-ridden exam.
The lawyers representing a petitioner started the submissions, saying that they were seeking the cancellation of the exam on grounds such as paper leak, OMR sheet manipulation, impersonation and cheating.
Here are the live updates from the Supreme Court hearing on NEET:
“Results of how many wrongdoers have been withheld, want to know geographical distribution of such beneficiaries,” asks the Supreme Court.
“No question that the question paper has been leaked, we are determining the extent of the leak,” says CJI DY Chandrachud.
NEET-UG 2024: Counsel for some petitioners seek re-test, tell SC identification of tainted and untainted is not possible.
