The Supreme Court observed that it will order a NEET-UG re-examination if it is proven that the guilty cannot be segregated from the entire rank list.
A bench led by Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and Justices J.B. Pardiwala and Manoj Misrabegan hearing on matters related to National Eligibility cum Entrance Test – undergraduate results on Thursday. The bench, hearing pleas demanding a retest observed that the entire “examination will go" if petitioners are able to establish entire examination is affected.
The petitioners argued the IIT-Madras analysis of the NEET-UG results was flawed as it analysed results of over 23 lakh candidates and not of 1.08 lakh who will secure seats for medical education. Advocate Narender Hooda argued, “Inflation of marks is admitted, the leak is admitted. The curve is no indication that there is no abnormality. Because, the data is too large, which cannot be caught. Granular variations can't be seen with this large data of 23 lakh candidates,” Live Law reported.
The Chief Justice also observed it wouldn’t be wise to reveal details of the Central Bureau of Investigation’s probe at this stage as people will become wise. "The CBI probe is on. If what the CBI has told us is revealed, it will affect the investigation and people will become wise,” Chief Justice Chandrachud said.
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. Allegations of irregularities, including paper leaks, have led to protests in several cities and sparring between rival political parties.
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.
