A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi would hear the plea next week after the counsel sought an urgent listing on the ground that counselling was scheduled to start from July 21.
The bench noted there were several rounds of counselling and students could appear in them, if they succeeded in the case.
The petitioners are candidates who appeared in the examination and suffered a power outage in certain centres in Madhya Pradesh and have moved against the decision of the Madhya Pradesh High Court refusing re-examination.
A single judge of the high court directed the National Testing Agency to conduct retest of the NEET-UG-2025 examination for candidates affected by a power outage at certain centres in Indore and Ujjain of the state.
The division bench of the high court, however, set aside the single judge order on the plea of the National Testing Agency but cautioned against any recurrence in future.
It took note of an expert panel report opining that though there was power outage at some centres, there was natural light to enable candidates to write the test.
Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that the Madhya Pradesh High Court set aside a previous order passed by a single judge-bench directing the National Testing Agency (NTA) to conduct a re-test of the National Eligibility-Entrance Test Undergraduate (NEET-UG) 2025 exam for the candidates in Indore and Ujjain, who were affected by power outage at the exam centres.
Even though the Division bench of Justices Vivek Rusia and Binod Kumar Dwivedi did not grant any relief to the petitioner candidates, who claimed that their performance was affected due to power outage during the examination, the bench directed NTA along with local administration of each district to ensure that all measures, especially the continuity of power supply is arranged in the future.
"In order to avoid such a situation in future, NTA as well as the local administration of each district are directed to ensure that all the measures, especially the continuity of power supply by way of regular supply or by way of alternate mode of supply, proper sitting arrangement, availability of air and cooling etc. It is the responsibility of the local administration to prepare the list of centres which can be used for these types of important examinations by any of the agencies," ordered the HC Division bench.
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