Today, the Supreme Court will hear new petitions about the NEET-UG 2024 exam. There are claims of paper leaks and cheating. The vacation bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice SVN Bhatti will handle these petitions.
Eight petitions are from 56 students. They talk about problems in the NEET-UG exam. The Student Federation of India (SFI) also filed a petition. They want the exam to be canceled and held again. The petitions ask the Central Government to keep the exams fair. They want steps to stop paper leaks and cheating in future exams.
Another petition from 20 students asks for an investigation. They want the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) or another independent agency to look into the exam issues. They want to check students who scored over 620 marks. The National Testing Agency (NTA) has filed 10 petitions. They want all other cases about NEET-UG transferred to the Supreme Court. There are reports of paper leaks in states like Bihar. This has caused protests and many petitions in different courts.
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court did not stop NEET counseling. Earlier, the court asked the NTA to check for any exam issues. Justices Nath and Bhatti said even small mistakes in the exam must be fixed. They stressed that the exam issues should not be treated as regular court cases. The court did not start a CBI investigation last week. But it asked the NTA to respond to the new petitions in two weeks.
The Supreme Court noted that students work hard for these exams. They said NEET-UG 2024 issues should not be adversarial. On June 13, the Central Government and NTA told the Supreme Court they canceled grace marks for 1,563 students. These students took the exam for medical courses.