NEET 2024 Supreme Court Hearing Live Updates: Despite the pending NTA NEET UG row, the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) on July 16 issued a notice inviting medical colleges to enter their seats at the official portal – mcc.nic.in. Today, SC will hear nearly 40 pleas on NEET issue
The judges further ask about the spread of NEET question papers. “The idea of somebody doing this is not to make a national charade of NEET exam. People were doing it for money. Therefore anybody who is making money out of it won’t circulate it mass scale,” said CJI Chandrachud adding: “Does somebody pay 75,000 for 45 minutes?”
The top court further discusses two possibilities of the NEET paper leak. “One the paper gets leaked before the custody of banks. That means, it happened before May 3. Second, the leak happened when the papers left the banks and were bound for the centre,” said CJI.
While hearing on marks inflation and alleged paper leak, the top court has asked the NTA to inform that out of the students who changed exam cities, how many made it to the top 1.08 lakh and is there any skew in favour of those who registered on April 9 and 10?
The apex court is hearing nearly 40 pleas related to the alleged irregularities on National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Undergraduate).
The counsel has alleged irregularity in the IIT Madras report submitted at the apex court. “One Hardayal School from Bahadurgarh has a special story…there were 6 people…What happened in Bahadurgarh is glaring. NTA never disclosed that the question paper taken from Canara Bank was distributed. There was no delay. The principal of school is on record that they collected papers from SBI and Canara Bank,” said Hooda, as per LiveLaw.
According to Live Law, the CJI told the petitioners: “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 top court judges also said that the CBI probe is on. If what the agency has told us is revealed, it will affect the investigation, people will become wise, as per PTI.
Meanwhile, the CBI has questioned three students from AIIMS Patna in connection with the NEET UG paper leak case. However, further details on the students being quizzed were not immediately known, as per PTI.
