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The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to cancel the NEET-UG 2024 exam in a decisive hearing of the controversial case.
The Supreme Court, while dismissing the petitions seeking cancellation and re-examination of the exam, said that there is no evidence to show that there has been any manipulation in the results of NEET-UG exam and its sanctity has been systematically compromised. Live Law,
Thus, the Supreme Court ruled that there would be no re-examination, suggesting that the demand to cancel the exam was not justified. The Supreme Court ruled that counselling and other admission processes would continue as scheduled.
A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Mishra resumed hearing the case today. The NEET-UG exam is under scrutiny due to alleged irregularities and concerns over paper leaks.
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The Supreme Court said it realises that directing a fresh NEET-UG for this year would have dire consequences for over 24 lakh students who appeared for the exam. Year,
The order further stated that this would “cause disruption in the admission schedule, and adversely impact the medical curriculum.”
During the hearing, the Chief Justice said that over 23 lakh candidates had appeared in the exam. “They are competing for 1.08 lakh seats, of which 56,000 are in government hospitals, while the remaining 52,000 are in private institutions.” Live Law informed of, Citing the Supreme Court’s decision.
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Delivering the judgment, DY Chandrachud said, “In the interim order of this court, identifying the main issues of dispute, this court had asked the NTA, the Centre and the CBI to make disclosures on affidavits. The role of the CBI comes into picture when the FIRs in Delhi, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Bihar and Jharkhand are transferred to the CBI.”
“This was a governance issue and the government very conveniently did not raise the issue of maintainability of these petitions,” senior advocate Mathews Nedumpara, representing the petitioners, said.
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Meanwhile, advocate Narender Hooda, appearing for the petitioners, said that Sanjeev Mukhiya, the main mastermind involved in the five paper leak cases, has not been arrested yet.
Several petitions were filed in the Supreme Court and high courts after the results were announced on June 4. The petitions sought cancellation of the NEET-UG 2024 exam held on May 5, re-examination and a court-monitored probe. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) confirmed that the paper leak in the NEET-UG case took place at the Hazaribagh centre in Jharkhand.
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