NEET 2021

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for NTA, submitted that answers of the students will be matched with the correct question booklets and added that if the direction to conduct NEET UG re-exam is provided, it will become a pattern. The Centre told the top court that every year students will come forward and seek a re-exam for one mistake or the other.

A bench of Justices S.A. Nazeer and Krishna Murari, in its order, said: "The applicants and all other eligible candidates who are similarly situated are permitted to appear in the counselling in the general on par with Indian Citizens to pursue MBBS/BDS courses and other undergraduate/postgraduate courses in approved/recognised Medical/Dental & other Colleges/Institutes."

Mrinal, who scored a perfect 720 to share the top rank with Delhi's Tanmay Gupta and Maharashtra's Karthika G. Nair, was keen on becoming an engineer when he was in seventh grade. Later, he got interested in becoming an Army doctor. "I wanted to serve the Army as a doctor. Later, I became less insistent on becoming an Army doctor and set the goal of just getting into the medical profession," he said.

Mrinal has got 100 per cent marks and secured all India rank No 1, followed by Tanmay Gupta from Delhi who secured second position, and Karthika Nair at third place. Karthika is also top among female candidates. The agency has put the result on its official website and also sent email to students. The Supreme Court on October 28 had allowed the NTA to release the NEET result, after which the results were announced.