NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live Updates: The Supreme Court is hearing a batch of petitions alleging paper leakage and malpractices in the NEET-UG 2024 exam, held on May 5 this year.
A bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra is hearing the case today.
During the hearing, CJI DY Chandrachud told the petitioners that ‘you have to show us that the leak was so systemic and affected the entire examination so as to warrant the cancellation of the entire exam.’ The re-examination has to be on concrete footing that the sanctity of entire test was affected, the CJI said, according to a report on legal news website LiveLaw.
Before taking up the matter, the CJI said the bench will start the final hearing in the NEET matter today as there was urgency in the matter. “There is some urgency in it. Young students from across the country have been waiting,” CJI DY Chandrachud said.
The National Testing Agency has filed written submissions to the Supreme Court on July 17, legal news website LiveLaw reported. The NTA submitted that the allegations of the petitioners that there has been a systemic failure as candidates have obtained unprecedented higher marks only in the top range of mark interval are misconceived.
What happened in last hearing?
Earlier, on July 15, the apex court adjourned the hearing for today to enable the petitioners to file their responses to the affidavits filed by the Centre and the National Testing Agency (NTA). It was noted in the order that some of the parties in the case haven’t received the affidavits filed by the Centre and NTA and they need to prepare their responses before arguments.
The Court granted the adjournment to enable the petitioners to file their responses to the affidavits. Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud-led bench initially proposed to list the matters on July 15. But the Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta cited a personal difficulty on July 15 and July 16. With July 17 a holiday, the SC then posted the matters to July 18.
What did the government say in its affidavit?
In an affidavit submitted on July 10, the Centre informed the top court that the Ministry of Education had requested IIT Madras to conduct comprehensive data analytics of the NEET-UG 2024 results. The Supreme Court was also informed that there was no evidence of widespread cheating or specific groups of candidates unfairly benefiting from abnormal scores in NEET-UG 2024.
NEET-UG 2024 was taken by 23.33 lakh students on May 5 across 4,750 centres in 571 cities, including 14 cities overseas. Conducted by the NTA, NEET-UG is the entrance test for admissions to MBBS, BDS, AYUSH, and other related courses in government and private institutions nationwide.
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18 Jul 2024, 12:10:51 PM IST
NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: ‘Can’t reply on IIT Madras data,” says advocate for petitioner
NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: Senior advocate Narender Hooda, who represents the lead petitioner, said in the court that there is a conflict of interest in the IIT Madras. ‘One of the Directors of IIT Madras is a member of the governing body of the NTA. They have run the data analytics taking the entire number. If data anayltics is to be run for 23 lakhs, at what stage, if 10,000 or 20,000 people have sneaked into it, you cannot detect any abnormality. The correct procedure was to apply this process to 1 lakh eight thousand people,’ Hooda said. However, NTA clarified that a past director was a member of the governing body.
18 Jul 2024, 11:59:01 AM IST
NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: ‘Re-exam has to be on concrete footing,’ says CJI
NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: CJI DY Chandrachud said during the hearing that merely because out of 23 lakh only 1 lakh will get admission, we cannot order a re-examination. ‘Re-examination has to be on a concrete footing that the entire exam is affected,’ the CJI said.
18 Jul 2024, 11:54:33 AM IST
NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: Can’t reveal CBI report, says CJI
NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: CJI DY Chandrachud said during the hearing that today, an investigation is going on, and if what CBI has told us is revealed, people will get cautious. He was responding to petitioner’s request of seeing CBI report submitted in the matter.
18 Jul 2024, 11:48:30 AM IST
NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: Hearing commences, CBI has filed 2nd status report, says SG
NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: The hearing into the matter has commenced. The Solicitor General began by informing the Court at CBI has filed a second status report last evening regarding the ongoing investigation into the alleged paper leak and other malpractices.
18 Jul 2024, 11:36:44 AM IST
NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: We will hear the matter today, young students waiting, says CJI ahead of taking up the pleas seeking ‘re-exam.’
NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: The Supreme Court says it will start the final hearing in the NEET matter today. “There is some urgency in it. Young students from across the country have been waiting,” CJI DY Chandrachud said.
18 Jul 2024, 11:13:59 AM IST
NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: Supreme Court bench to take up the matter soon
NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: A bench comprising Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Misra will be hearing the NEET UG matter in the Supreme Court soon. The court will assemble for judicial work at 11.15 am.
18 Jul 2024, 10:51:27 AM IST
NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: Court to assemble for udicial work at 11:15 am
NEET UG 2024Hearing Live: Justice N Kotiswar Singh and Justice R Mahadevan took oath as SC judges. The Court will assemble for Judicial work at 11:15 am, legal news agency LiveLaw said.
18 Jul 2024, 10:43:00 AM IST
NEET UG SC Hearing Live: Petitioner’s allegations misconceived, says NTA
NEET UG SC Hearing Live: The National Testing Agency has filed written submissions to the Supreme Court on July 17, legal news website LiveLaw reported. The NTA submitted that the allegations of the petitioners that there has been a systemic failure as candidates have obtained unprecedented higher marks only in the top range of mark interval are misconceived and thus denied.
18 Jul 2024, 10:33:43 AM IST
NEET UG SC Hearing Live: NTA submits written submission
In a written submission, NTA stated, “The allegations of the petitioners that there has been a systemic failure as candidates have obtained unprecedented higher marks only in the top range of mark interval are misconceived and thus denied.”
18 Jul 2024, 10:18:08 AM IST
NEET UG SC Hearing Live: Three students from AIIMS Patna questioned
The CBI has questioned three students from AIIMS Patna in connection with the NEET-UG paper leak case, officials said Thursday.
Further details on the students being quizzed were not immediately known.
The agency on Tuesday had arrested Pankaj Kumar alias Aditya, a 2017-batch civil engineer from the National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur, who allegedly stole the NEET-UG paper from the NTA trunk in Hazaribagh, the officials said.
18 Jul 2024, 09:50:31 AM IST
NEET UG SC Hearing Live: Pleas SC to hear in the case
SC to hear a batch of petitions related to the controversy-ridden medical entrance exam NEET-UG 2024 which was held on May 5.
The top court will also hear pleas of NTA seeking transfer of petitions pending different HCs to the top court in the NEET-UG matters.
18 Jul 2024, 09:20:58 AM IST
NEET UG SC Hearing Live: Will the Supreme Court order a retest today?
The court can order a retest today if the breach is extensive and it is impossible to differentiate between compromised and uncompromised candidates.
18 Jul 2024, 09:19:43 AM IST
NEET UG SC Hearing Live: NEET hearing: What to expect today?
CJI DY Chandrachud on July 8 mentioned that mandating a retest for nearly 23 lakh students would be considered a last resort while emphasising that many candidates come from low-income families and cannot bear the extra travel expenses unless unavoidable.
Now the question arises: Will the Supreme Court order a retest today? During the last hearing, the top court stressed the necessity of a comprehensive investigation and a detailed report before making a final ruling. On the same day, the apex court specified the criteria to determine whether a retest is required.
These criteria include whether the alleged breach was systemic in nature, whether it compromised the integrity of the examination process, and whether it is feasible to separate those who benefited from the fraud from the unaffected students.
18 Jul 2024, 08:46:48 AM IST
NEET UG SC Hearing Live: Centre and NTA opposed demand for re-test
The Central Government and the National Testing Agency have rejected calls for a re-test, arguing that the instances of malpractice were isolated and did not compromise the integrity of the entire examination. They referred to a data analytics report by IIT Madras, which found no evidence of widespread malpractice, indicating no systemic failure.
18 Jul 2024, 08:40:12 AM IST
NEET UG SC Hearing Live: Medical colleges asked to enter seats in portal for NEET-UG 2024 counselling
The Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) has issued a notice urging medical colleges to enter their seats at its official portal for the NEET-UG counselling 2024 as the counselling process is likely to begin soon.
The next hearing of the Supreme Court on the NEET-UG exam matter is on July 18.
Medical institutes participating for UG counselling can upload the seat lists on the portal till July 20.
“Institutes participating in UG Counselling 2024 are hereby informed that intramcc portal for contribution of UG seats is open now. Hence, institutes are requested to start entering their seats on the portal at the earliest so that the process of seats contribution can be completed timely,” the notice issued on July 15 said.
18 Jul 2024, 08:26:59 AM IST
NEET UG SC Hearing Live: All you need to know about NEET UG 2024 controversy
A total of 67 students had scored a perfect 720, unprecedented in the NTA’s history, with six from a Haryana centre figuring in the list, raising suspicions about irregularities in the examination. It has been alleged that grace marks contributed to the 67 students sharing the top rank.
The number of candidates sharing the top rank in the NEET-UG reduced to 61 from 67 as the NTA announced the revised results on July 1.
The Centre and the NTA on June 13 told the court that they had cancelled the grace marks awarded to 1,563 candidates.
They were given the option to either take a re-test or forgo the compensatory marks awarded for loss of time.
The NTA announced the revised rank list on July 1 after issuing the results of the re-test held on June 23.
18 Jul 2024, 08:25:15 AM IST
NEET UG SC Hearing Live: NEET ‘paper leak’: Patna court sends key accused to 14-day CBI custody
A special court in Patna on Wednesday sent the key accused in the NEET-UG paper-leak case, who allegedly stole the exam paper from a trunk of the National Testing Agency (NTA) in Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh, to the CBI’s custody for 14 days, officials said.
During its custody of accused Pankaj Kumar alias Aditya till July 30, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is likely to question him on his alleged role, his linkages with other gang members, the payments received and his local contacts who were involved in the entire theft process, the officials added.
Kumar’s alleged accomplice, Raju Singh, was sent to the federal agency’s custody for 10 days (till July 25) on Tuesday.
18 Jul 2024, 08:24:34 AM IST
NEET UG SC Hearing Live: NEET UG exams
The National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test-Undergraduate (NEET-UG) is conducted by the NTA for admissions to MBBS, BDS, AYUSH and other related courses in government and private institutions across the country.
18 Jul 2024, 08:23:48 AM IST
NEET UG SC Hearing Live: What happened in last hearing?
On July 11, the top court had adjourned till July 18 the hearing on the pleas, including those seeking cancellation of the exam, re-test and probe into alleged malpractices in the conduct of NEET-UG 2024, as the responses of the Centre and the NTA were yet to be received by some parties.
The bench had observed that it has received a status report from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on the progress made in the probe into the alleged irregularities in the conduct of the exam.
18 Jul 2024, 08:13:08 AM IST
NEET UG SC Hearing Live: SC to hear pleas related to controversy-ridden NEET-UG 2024
The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Thursday a batch of petitions related to the controversy-ridden medical entrance exam NEET-UG 2024 which was held on May 5.
According to the cause list of July 18 uploaded on the apex court’s website, a bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra would hear more than 40 pleas, including those filed by the National Testing Agency (NTA) seeking transfer of cases pending against it in various high courts on the NEET-UG row to the Supreme Court to avoid multiplicity of litigations.
