The Supreme Court declined an urgent hearing on a plea that sought probe by Central Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement Directorate into the alleged leak of the NEET-UG question paper. A bench headed by Justice Abhay S. Oka did not issue notices to the investigating agencies but decided to take up the matter on July 8, when a batch of petitions is listed for a hearing, including some seeking cancellation of the examination.
The plea, through an application in the pending case, has contended that the offence alleged is not merely a violation under the IPC but constitutes an offence under the more stringent PMLA of 2002.
In the last hearings, the apex court had rejected the prayers for deferring commencement of admission counselling and clearly stated that it would not issue any interim orders to stay counselling processes for medical programs post the NEET-UG examination.
Meanwhile, the Central government had recently ordered an investigation into allegations of paper leak and irregularities during the offline OMR-mode NEET-UG 2024 exam conducted on May 5 by the CBI. NEET-UG is taken by aspirants for undergraduate medical courses and is conducted by the National Testing Agency.
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