NEET UG 2024 SC Hearing Live: Supreme Court Hearing on Cancellation of Results, Reconsideration Petitions Soon

NEET 2024 SC Hearing Live Updates: The Supreme Court of India will today hear a batch of petitions related to alleged irregularities in the conduct of NEET UG 2024, the entrance exam for admission to undergraduate medical courses.

NEET UG 2024 hearing live: SC hearing on cancellation of results, reconsideration pleas. (Hindustan Times)

According to the July 8 list of causes posted on the Supreme Court website, the bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra is expected to hear a total of 38 petitions related to the review.

The sanctity of several national-level entrance exams conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA), including the NEET UG, is being questioned amid allegations of paper leaks and other malpractices.

In separate statements, the centre and the NTA expressed their reluctance to cancel the exam and hold a re-examination.

In their replies, they said that the CBI had taken over the cases registered in different states.

“It is also submitted that at the same time, in the absence of any evidence of large-scale breach of confidentiality in a pan-India examination, it would not be rational to abandon the examination in its entirety and the results already declared,” the Centre said.

“Canceling the exam in its entirety would seriously endanger the hundreds of thousands of honest candidates who attempted the exam in 2024,” the Education Ministry said.

The NTA, in its separate statement, said: “Cancellation of the examination in its entirety on the basis of the above factor would be extremely counterproductive and significantly detrimental to public interest, particularly the career prospects of qualified candidates.”

The accusation of “massive professional misconduct” in the examination is “totally unfounded, misleading and without any basis,” he added.

The government also informed that it has formed a high-level expert group to suggest effective measures for conducting transparent, smooth and fair examinations by the NTA.

(With contributions from PTI)

Check out live updates on Supreme Court hearing on cancellation of NEET UG results and reconsideration petitions below.

Follow all updates here:

Mon 08 Jul 2024 11:13

NEET UG 2024 Live Hearing: Key Questions Raised by Petitioners

NEET UG 2024 Live Hearing: Petitioners sought cancellation of NEET UG results and reconsideration, alleging leakage of documents and other malpractices.

The issue of grace marks was taken up in a previous hearing when the centre informed that the compensatory marks awarded to around 1,600 candidates have been cancelled and a fresh test will be conducted for them.

Those who do not wish to retake the test can keep their initial results (without the grace marks), he said.

The result of the new test has already been announced.
Mon 08 Jul 2024 11:04

NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: Education Ministry Committed to Protecting Interests of Students, Ministry Said in Affidavit

NEET UG 2024 Audience Live: The Education Ministry said the Centre was committed to protecting the interests of lakhs of students who attempted the exams fairly and after years of hard work, without trying to gain any illegal advantage.

“Therefore, while genuine concerns based on proven facts must be taken into account, other requests merely based on conjecture and supposition, without any factual basis, must be rejected so as not to cause unnecessary suffering and distress to honest applicants and their families,” the ministry said.

(PTI)
Mon 08 Jul 2024 10:57

NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: NTA, Centre’s Stand on Re-Examination and Cancellation of Results

NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: The Centre and the National Testing Agency (NTA) recently told the Supreme Court that scrapping the exam would be “counterproductive” and “seriously jeopardise” lakhs of honest candidates in the absence of any evidence of large-scale breach of confidentiality.

Mon 08 Jul 2024 10:53

NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: Supreme Court Hearing Set to Begin Soon

NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: The Supreme Court bench headed by the CJI is likely to begin hearing the pleas on the irregularities in the NEET exam soon. Stay tuned for the latest updates.
Mon 08 Jul 2024 10:28

NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: When was the retest conducted?

NEET UG 2024 Live Audience: The new NEET UG test was conducted on 23rd June 2024 and the result was announced on 30th June 2024.
Mon 08 Jul 2024 10:01

NEET UG 2024 Live Hearing: What Happened in Previous Hearings

On June 11, on a plea seeking a re-examination in view of alleged leak of question papers and other malpractices, the Supreme Court observed that the sanctity of the examination was affected and sought responses from the Centre and the NTA on the petition.

The Supreme Court then refused to stay the UG’s medical advice process.

While hearing separate pleas on June 18, the Supreme Court said that even if there was “0.001 per cent negligence” on the part of anyone in conducting the examination, the situation should be handled with care.

On June 20, the Supreme Court sought responses from the Centre, NTA and others on a series of petitions, including those seeking scrapping of NEET-UG and a court-monitored inquiry.

The Centre and the NTA had on June 13 informed the court that they had cancelled the grace notes and decided to hold a retest.

(PTI contributions)

Mon 08 Jul 2024 09:25

NEET UG 2024 Live Hearing: When is Undergraduate Medical Counselling Scheduled to Begin?

NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: The Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) is expected to begin NEET UG counselling by the end of this month. The official schedule is yet to be released.
Mon 08 Jul 2024 09:12

NEET UG 2024 Live Audience: After Re-examination, Number of Successful Candidates

NEET UG 2024 SC Hearing Live: A total of 67 students scored 720 marks in NEET UG 2024, with six from a Haryana centre making it to the list, raising suspicions of irregularities in the exam.

However, the number of winners dropped from 67 to 61 after the retest.
Mon 08 Jul 2024 09:03

NEET UG 2024 live hearing: No evidence of large-scale privacy breach, says ministry

In its statement, the Education Ministry said there was no evidence of a large-scale breach of confidentiality and that dropping the test would not be rational.

“Canceling the exam in its entirety would seriously endanger the hundreds of thousands of honest candidates who attempted the exam in 2024,” the ministry said.

Mon 08 Jul 2024 08:33

NEET 2024 SC hearing live: High-level panel to make recommendations on exam reforms, Centre says in affidavit

In the statement, the government mentioned that it has constituted a high-level expert committee to suggest effective measures for conducting transparent, smooth and fair examinations by the NTA.

The panel will make recommendations on reforms of the examination process mechanism, improvement of data security protocols and structure and functioning of the National Testing Agency, he said.

(Source: PTI)
Mon 08 Jul 2024 08:15

NEET 2024 SC Live Hearing: What did NTA say?

NEET 2024 SC Hearing Live: In a separate statement, the National Testing Agency (NTA) reiterated that cancellation of the exam would be counterproductive and detrimental to the larger public interest, especially the career prospects of qualified candidates.

The accusation of massive cheating in the exam is “completely unfounded, misleading and without any foundation,” he added.

(Source: PTI)
Mon 08 Jul 2024 08:13

NEET 2024 SC Live Hearing: Centre Shows Reluctance To Conduct Exam Again

NEET 2024 SC Hearing Live: In a recent affidavit, the Centre said that scrapping the exam would put lakhs of candidates who attempted it at risk.

“It is also submitted that at the same time, in the absence of any evidence of large-scale breach of confidentiality in a pan-India examination, it would not be rational to abandon the examination in its entirety and the results already declared,” the Centre said.

“Scrapping the exam in its entirety would seriously endanger the hundreds of thousands of honest candidates who attempted the exam in 2024,” he added.

Mon 08 Jul 2024 08:11

NEET 2024 SC Hearing Live: CJI-led court to hear 38 petitions

NEET 2024 SC Live Hearing: As per the July 8 cause list uploaded on the SC website, the bench is set to hear a total of 38 petitions related to the exam.
Mon 08 Jul 2024 08:09

Supreme Court NEET 2024 live hearing: Arguments to be heard today

Supreme Court NEET 2024 Live Hearing: The Supreme Court will today hear a batch of petitions related to alleged irregularities in the conduct of NEET UG 2024. The matter will be heard by a three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra.