New Delhi, Jul 18 (UNI) The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the National Testing Agency (NTA) to upload on its website the lists of marks obtained by the students, who appeared in the NEET-UG-2024 examination, by masking their identity.
A three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, Justice JB Pardiwal and Justice Manoj Mishra directed the NTA to upload the information by Saturday, July 20 afternoon.
The Bench was hearing several petitions filed by students having various woes and seeking cancellation of the NEET-UG 2024 exam over allegations of paper leak and other malpractices.
The bench during the day heard several petitions filed by the aggrieved students and the reply from CBI as well as from the NTA and posted the matter for further hearing on Monday, July 22.
The petitioners complained that they were not able to ascertain the centre-wise marking pattern since the NTA had not published the results of all candidates.
Senior Advocate Narender Hooda, appearing for the student petitioners, submitted that there is a “handicap” as neither the CBI status report is shared with them nor the entire results have been published.
The Court directed NTA to publish state-wise results and suggested that dummy roll numbers be allotted to mask the identities.
CJI D Y Chandrachud remarked, “It cannot be denied that the paper was leaked and is admitted by CBI that it happened in the centres of Patna and Hazari Bagh.”
“To ensure that whether the leak remained confined to those centres or had spread across other cities and centres, it was crucial to dissect the complete data of results,” the CJI said.
The Court also said that the re-examination can only happen if there are sufficient grounds for it.
