NEET-UG 2024 Verdict Live Updates: CJI-led Supreme Court bench to resume hearing at 10.30 am. What to expect?
What happened in last hearing?In the July 18 hearing, the top court also flagged the NTA's “hypothesis" that the paper was “leaked", solved and memorised by students withing justy 45 minutes. The lawyer appearing for one of the petitioner alleged that there was increase in the syllabus for the exam and the changes were notified just few months before.
He also said the transportation of the question papers was compromised in Hazaribag.Earlier in the day, CJI DY Chandrachud told the petitioners that they needed to prove that the paper leak was ‘systemic’ and affected the entire examination so as to warrant the cancellation of the entire exam. The re-examination has to be on concrete footing that the sanctity of entire test was affected, the CJI said, according to a report on legal news website LiveLaw.What is the government's versionThe Union government has, in its affidavit, informed the Supreme Court that there was no evidence of widespread cheating or specific groups of candidates unfairly benefiting from abnormal scores in NEET-UG 2024.
The government also informed the Court that the Ministry of Education had requested IIT Madras to conduct comprehensive data analytics of the NEET-UG 2024 results.NEET-UG 2024 was taken by 23.33 lakh students on May 5 across 4,750 centres in 571 cities, including 14 cities overseas. Conducted by the NTA, NEET-UG is the entrance test for admissions to MBBS, BDS, AYUSH, and other related courses in government and private institutions nationwide.Catch all the LIVE Updates on NEET UG 2024 row here:NEET-UG 2024 Verdict Live: The National Testing Agency (NTA), the central agency that conducts NEET-UG, had filed an additional affidavit in the Supreme Court in the matter, according to legal
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