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Review petition in Supreme Court against NEET 2024 judgment
New Delhi: While the NEET counselling is being conducted in various states, a petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a review of its order that rejected the holding of NEET 2024 afresh.
The review plea filed by Kajal Kumari has sought reconsideration of the apex court order, as per a recent report by PTI.
The top court in its August 2 order had said there was no sufficient material on record at present to indicate a systemic leak or malpractice compromising the integrity of the examination.
Medical Dialogues had reported that pronouncing its detailed order on the pleas concerning the National Eligibility-and-Entrance Test Undergraduate (NEET-UG) examination, the Supreme Court said that it did not cancel the UG medical entrance examination amid concerns of the paper leak because there was no systemic breach of its sanctity.
"...the various issues discussed until now do not lead to the conclusion that the integrity of the NEET was vitiated at a systemic level," observed the Supreme Court bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manij Misra.
Although the top court bench upheld the NEET UG 2024 exam, held on May 5, 2024, it also criticised the National Testing Agency (NTA), the authority in charge of conducting the NEET exam, saying that the agency must stop its flip-flops in holding the examination that was noticed this year.
"A body such as NTA which is entrusted with immense responsibility in relation to highly important competitive exams cannot afford to misstep, take an incorrect decision, and amend it at a later stage. All decisions must be well-considered, with due regard to the importance of the decision. Flipflops are an anathema to fairness," observed the bench.
"...the manner in which NTA has organised the exam this year gives rise to serious concerns. The Court is cognizant of the fact that national-level exams with participation from tens of lakhs of students require immense resources, coordination, and planning. But that is precisely the reason for the existence of a body such as NTA. It is no excuse to say that the exam is conducted in myriad centres or that a large number of aspirants appear for the exam. NTA has sufficient resources at its disposal. It has adequate funding, time, and opportunities to organise exams such as the NEET without lapses of the kind that occurred this year," it further noted.
While making these observations, the Apex Court referred to multiple occurrences in the conduct of the exam and highlighted the lapses made by NTA. It pointed out that the paper was leaked in Patna and Hazaribagh and in one of the centres, the rear door of the strongroom was opened and unauthorised persons were admitted to access the question papers. In this regard, the bench noted, "This indicates that there is a serious lapse in security and that security measures which are stringent and effective must be implemented by NTA."
Further, the bench took note of the fact that the question papers were sometimes transported in e-richshaws and the services of private courier companies were available. Referring to the arguments made by the petitioners' counsel Advocate Hooda, the Court noted that NTA did not specify a time by which the OMR sheets were required to be sealed after the conclusion of the exam.
The apex court had expanded the remit of the Centre-appointed panel headed by former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief K Radhakrishnan constituted to review the functioning of the National Testing Agency (NTA), which holds the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (Undergraduate) (NEET-UG), and recommend examination reforms.
The court had said since the remit of the panel has been expanded, the committee would submit its report by September 30 on various measures to rectify deficiencies in the examination system.
The top court had directed the NTA to ensure that all concerns highlighted by the court in its judgment are addressed and requested the seven-member committee to keep these issues in mind while making its recommendations.
Over 2.3 million students took the NEET-UG 2024 held on May 5 for admissions to MBBS, BDS, AYUSH and other related courses.
Kajal joined Medical Dialogue in 2019 for the Latest Health News. She has done her graduation from the University of Delhi. She mainly covers news about the Latest Healthcare. She can be contacted at editorial@medicaldialogues.in.