Supreme Court Dismisses Review Petition On NEET-UG 2024 Re-examination

The Supreme Court has dismissed a reappraisal petition filed against its verdict refusing to behaviour the NEET-UG 2024 exam afresh.

After perusing the reappraisal petition, a bench, headed by CJI DY Chandrachud, said that nary lawsuit for reappraisal was made retired and dismissed it.

"There is nary mistake evident connected the look of the record. No lawsuit for reappraisal nether Order XLVII Rule 1 of the Supreme Court Rules 2013 has been established. The reappraisal petition is, therefore, dismissed," ordered the Bench, besides comprising Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra.

The reappraisal petition filed by 1 of the petitioners, nether Article 137 of the Constitution, challenged the determination rendered connected July 23, which had said that determination was nary "systemic leak of question paper", breaching the sanctity of the full competitory exam.

Generally, reappraisal pleas are tested connected precise constrictive grounds similar mistakes of law, errors evident connected the look of the record, etc., and are often dismissed successful chambers and are seldom fixed an unfastened tribunal hearing.

In its elaborate judgment, the Supreme Court said that it was mindful of the information that directing a caller exam would beryllium replete with superior consequences for implicit 2 cardinal students who had appeared for the NEET-UG exam held connected May 5.

However, it clarified that its bid won't forestall authorities from taking enactment against candidates who had secured admittance utilizing malpractices.

Expanding the remit of the High-Level Committee of Experts constituted by the Centre successful the aftermath of the NEET-UG introspection controversy, the SC had directed the adept sheet to formulate a modular operating process (SOP) regarding the timeline for registration, alteration of exam centres, sealing of OMR sheets and different processes related to the behaviour of exams.

"The Ministry of Education shall instrumentality a determination connected the recommendations made by the committee wrong a play of 1 period from receiving the report," it had ordered.

The Union Ministry of Education established a seven-member adept sheet -- headed by Dr K. Radhakrishnan, erstwhile Chairman of ISRO and Chairman, of the Board of Governors, IIT Kanpur -- to urge effectual measures for the behaviour of transparent, creaseless and just examinations by the National Testing Agency (NTA). The High-Level Committee of Experts was formed aft the SC asked the Centre to item the steps taken to guarantee the sanctity of the NEET successful the future. The Supreme Court besides deprecated the National Testing Agency's (NTA) determination to grant compensatory marks to 1,563 students connected relationship of nonaccomplishment of time, which was aboriginal recalled aft respective petitions were filed earlier the apical court. Further, it asked the NTA to re-tally the marks afresh fixed the sentiment rendered by the adept sheet of IIT Delhi successful respect of a contentious physics question. As galore arsenic 44 candidates were capable to unafraid afloat marks due to the fact that of the NTA's determination to dainty 2 options arsenic the close answers to the ambiguous question.