NEET UG Paper Leak: SC Postpones Matter to July 18, Allows More Time For Petitioners to File Fresh Affidavits
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday postponed the NEET-UG 2024 case to Thursday, July 18 and the decision was made to give petitioners ample time to review their newly filed affidavits. This postponement from the Supreme court involves multiple petitions about alleged paper leaks and exam irregularities.
The NEET UG SC hearing was scheduled for July 11, but the delay in filing affidavits prompted the Court to reschedule the hearing.
Supreme Court says it will hear the NEET-UG case on Thursday, July 18. Supreme Court notes in its 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.
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The Supreme Court observed in its 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.
A bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra adjourned the hearing for next Thursday to enable the petitioners to file their responses to the affidavits filed by the Centre and the National Testing Agency (NTA) yesterday.It 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.
On July 11, the Central government filed an affidavit in the case denying any mass malpractice in the NEET-UG 2024 exam.
In the affidavit, the Centre said the data analytics done by the Indian Institute of Technology Madras shows that there is neither any indication of mass malpractice nor a localised set of candidates being benefitted leading to abnormal scores.
It also has said that counselling will be conducted in four rounds starting from the third week of July.
“For any candidate, if it is found that he/she has been the beneficiary of any malpractice, the candidature of such person would be cancelled at any stage during the counselling process or even afterwards,” stated the affidavit.
The NTA in its affidavit has stated that the video showing a photo of the NEET-UG exam paper leaked on Telegram on May 4 was fake.
“The timestamp was manipulated to create a false impression of an early leak,” it added.
It said that NTA has carried out an analysis of the distribution of marks of candidates in NEET-UG 2024 at the National, State and City level and also the Centre level.
