NEET UG 2024: Supreme Court issues notice on NTA’s plea seeking transfer of petitions
NEET-UG 2024: On Monday, the Supreme Court sent notice in response to petitions from the National Testing Agency (NTA) requesting that matters pertaining to the NEET-UG 2024 test that are now pending before the Rajasthan High Court be transferred to the higher court.
The supreme court has received a number of petitions claiming paper leaks and testing misconduct, requesting an order to revoke the NEET-UG 2024 results and retake the exam.
Under the direction of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, the bench decided to file a notice in the transfer petition and directed that it be filed with the other petitions. Among them are requests to have the NEET-UG test canceled, which are scheduled for hearing on July 18.
Nevertheless, the SC declined to grant the NTA’s advocate’s motion to halt the Rajasthan High Court proceedings, stating that the High Courts do not take up cases involving transfer petitions.
The NTA filed identical transfer applications, and earlier on June 14, the supreme court granted notice in those cases. The exam board had applied to the Delhi High Court for the transfer of cases contesting both the awarding of grace marks and the purported NEET paper leak. On June 20, the highest court linked all of the petitions with the primary issue and halted the proceedings that were still ongoing before different high courts over the purported NEET-UG paper leak.
While NEET-UG 2024 was administered to 23.33 lakh students on May 5 across 4,750 centres in 571 cities, including 14 cities overseas, the Center stated in its most recent affidavit filed before the top court that data analysis conducted by IIT Madras showed that there was no indication of mass malpractice nor a localised set of candidates being benefited leading to abnormal scores in the NEET-UG examination held on May 5 this year. However, several aspirants had approached the top court and raised the issue of question paper leakage, awarding compensatory marks, and anomaly in the NEET-UG question.