CJI Chandrachud-led bench to take up NEET pleas today
The Supreme Court will hear more than 35 petitions challenging the irregularities, paper leaks and other issues in the NEET-UG examination, seeking various directions including a CBI probe and the exam to be held afresh.
New Delhi: A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, is set to hear on July 8, Monday, more than 35 petitions challenging the irregularities, paper leak and other issues in the NEET-UG examination, seeking various directions including CBI probe and the exam to be held afresh.
These petitions have been filed by various educational institutions, student groups and individual students. A group of 20 students, who had appeared in the medical entrance exam, have filed a plea in the top court seeking direction for scrapping of the NEET-UG exam and an apex court-monitored probe by the CBI or any other independent agency into the alleged irregularities.
The Central government on Friday told the Supreme Court, through an affidavit, that the exam held on May 5 should not be cancelled, as it would seriously jeopardise lakhs of honest candidates who attempted it.
“Scrapping the exam in its entirety would seriously jeopardise lakhs of honest candidates who attempted the question paper,” the affidavit filed by the Union Ministry of Education said.
It added that the affidavit, filed in the top court, was bonafide and in the interest of justice.
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