HC issues notice to NTA, MCC, NMC over alleged incorrect result of NEET candidate

Cuttack: While considering a plea by a NEET candidate from the State who alleged that wrong marks were given to him, the Orissa High Court on Friday issued notices to the chairperson of the National Testing Agency (NTA), the chairperson of the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC), and the chairperson of the National Medical Commission (NMC). 

Although the two-judge bench of Justices BR Sarangi and Justice MS Raman did not fix the next date for further consideration of the matter, it directed issuing notices for ‘fixing short returnable dates’.

The petitioner student appeared in the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test Undergraduate (NEET-UG) examination, which was held on May 7, for admission into MBBS course.

However, after the results were published on June 13, the student hailing from Nayagarh region found and belonging to physically handicapped category discovered that he was not selected.

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Following this, he filed the first petition before the Orissa High Court seeking direction upon the NTA for awarding correct marks. Consequently, the HC bench directed NTA to consider the representation of the petitioner student. 

As per the latest media report by the New Indian Express, NTA, on July 12, sent email to the petitioner student stating that he had scored 76 marks out of 180. In the email, NTA further stated that the student attempted 176 questions and out of them 51 were correct and 128 were wrong. Following this, the student filed another petition in High Court challenging the result communicated by the National Testing Agency.

In the plea, the student stated that he should have been selected as tallying of his answer sheet along with the answer key provided online by NTA showed that out of 179 questions he had answered, 174 were correct. 

Advocate Rajib Rath appeared on the behalf of the petitioner student when the matter was taken up for consideration on Friday. The student's counsel sought the interference of the court for correction of the technical error that had caused the incorrect result.