Supreme court to hear NEET PG answer key transparency plea on October 15
New Delhi: The Supreme Court of India is likely to hear the plea seeking greater transparency in the National Eligibility-Entrance Test Postgraduate (NEET-PG) 2026 examination on October 15, 2026.
According to the Supreme Court's official website, the plea, filed by the Democratic Medical Association (DMA), is pending and listed at the fresh admission stage.
The case status details, as shown on the Supreme Court's website, indicate that the matter is listed before a Bench comprising Justices Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha and Alok Aradhe for a hearing on October 15, 2026.
Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that the plea, filed by DMA and others, challenged the manner in which the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) disclosed the answer key and responses of the candidates for the NEET PG 2026. It has sought disclosure of the actual questions and options presented to each candidate to enable independent verification of their scores.
The NEET-PG examination was conducted on 30 August 2026, and the results were declared on 24 September 2026. The matter is presently pending before the Hon’ble Supreme Court.
Filed under Article 32 of the Constitution of India, the petition seeks to ensure greater transparency and candidate-level verification in the NEET-PG examination process.
The association has challenged the NBEMS notice dated October 1, 2026, to the extent that it limits post-result disclosure for NEET-PG 2026 to numerical identifiers. According to the notice dated October 1, 2026, candidates can view a question-wise evaluation using their applicant logins.
Reliefs sought:
The association has urged the Apex Court to quash the October 1 notice to the extent that it confines disclosure to Question IDs, numerical answer and response IDs and question-wise marks. Further, directions have been sought to the NBEMS to make the full candidate-wise examination record available through individual logins. The plea said that such record should show each question in the order presented, the complete options in the candidate’s own sequence, the recorded response, the correct answer under the final key and the marks awarded, and should be downloadable as a permanent electronic copy in PDF, CSV or a similar format.
Further, it has sought a time-bound window for candidates to object to specific questions once they have seen them, a subject-expert committee to decide those objections with liberty to place authoritative medical material before it, and consequential correction of scores and ranks wherever errors are found.
The prayers are not limited to this year only. The petition asks for guidelines or a standard operating procedure to build a transparent post-examination disclosure system into future postgraduate medical entrance exams.
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