In a jolt to the petitioners against NEET-UG 2024, the Supreme Court declared on Tuesday that there was not enough material to order a re-examination.
The bench headed by Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, while going through the analysis of data done by IIT Madras and other statistics placed before it, found no trace of any systemic leakage of question papers, which would have vitiated the examination process.
The bench, comprising Justices J.B. Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, was alive to the fact that directing fresh examination would impact adversely the career of more than 2 million students who appeared for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Undergraduate) conducted on May 5.
The court also went ahead to make it clear that its judgment does not shut doors on any action that could be taken by the authorities against those candidates who secured admission by adopting unfair means.
Besides, it had asked the NTA to revise the marks in view of the opinion given by the IIT Delhi expert committee on the contentious physics question, whereby the committee opined that two options could not be treated as correct answers to the same question.
Earlier, the Supreme Court had directed Pankaj Jain, the Director of IIT Delhi, to constitute a committee of three experts for finding out the correct option for the question and the report was to be submitted before the Registrar, Supreme Court, till noon on July 23.
While the petition for cancellation of NEET-UG was being heard, one of the petitioners brought out that 44 candidates achieved full marks because of this ambiguous question and questioned how NTA could award compensatory marks by going against its own instructions which refer to the latest NCERT textbook.
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