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The Court also accepted NTA’s statement that, for the present batch, the prescribed fee could be deposited through NEFT, with proof of payment annexed to the application.
A petition was filed against NTA, the body conducting various exams in India, in the aftermath of the NEET-UG paper leak controversy.
In a major controversy surrounding NEET-UG 2026, reports of a possible question paper leak, where a “guess paper” allegedly matched a significant
“The examination pattern indubitably provides 180 compulsory questions which need to be attempted by a candidate in 180 minutes (3 hours). This gives an average time of one minute for each question creating a time sensitive situation for the candidates where every second counts. In these circumstances, loss of 3 minutes 32 seconds cannot be said to be insignificant.”
The main dispute arose from two allegedly flawed questions in the CUET (PG)-2025 Psychology paper. The petitioners claimed that the official answer key provided incorrect or academically debatable answers, adversely affecting their scores seeking judicial intervention to ensure fair evaluation and correction of the final key.
“It is correct that this exam is very important for every child for their future career, but it is also important to note that out of 27,264 candidates, only 70 candidates have filed writ petitions complaining about disruption due to power outage which is a very insignificant figure.”
“Courts may direct the cancellation of an examination or approve such cancellation by the competent authority only if it is not possible to separate the tainted candidates from the untainted ones.”
On 22-07-2024 the Supreme Court has asked the Director of IIT, Delhi to constitute a three-member expert committee to give their opinion regarding the correct answer to a multiple-choice question of NEET-UG 2024, for which the NTA awarded marks for two options.
Supreme Court directed NTA to complete this exercise till Saturday noon.
“If the breach of the exam’s sanctity is widespread and if it is not possible to segregate tainted and untainted candidates, a retest may be ordered, but if beneficiaries are identified and limited, then a retest won’t be needed”
The Court adjourned and scheduled the matter on 10-07-2024, thereby allowing the respondents time to file their replies.
On 13-06-2024, SC has accepted Centre and NTA’s decision to cancel grace marks awarded to 1,563 NEET-UG candidates who did not get the requisite time to finish the exam, with an option to take a re-test later in June.
“If the documents/ score card given by the candidate, downloaded from the website of the NTA, were genuine, then the candidate should get admission into his choicest institution of the country, like IIT or NIT. But, if the documents are found to be not genuine, then CBI should ascertain how the same was obtained by the candidate, so that such mistake cannot be made by the authorities in future.”
Delhi High Court: In a case filed by a student of class XIIth who is under a dilemma of whether