NEET Result Controversy Live: Pleas in SC seeks re-exam, challenges grace marks

NEET Result 2024 Controversy Live Updates: Kerala Congress Committee has shared marksheet of a student on its Twitter handle along with this update, “A child who got 705/720 marks and a rank of 1321 in NEET 2024. His/her 12th standard marks card says the child failed in Physics (21%), Chemistry (31%) and in Biology passed with 39% marks. We are not blaming the child for this rank. We are blaming the system @NTA_Exams which has destroyed the lives of lakhs of aspiring children who spent several years studying for this exam to fulfil their dream of becoming a doctor and serve the country! Heads must roll for this criminal manipulation. The price must be exacted from those criminals who forced children to commit suicide!”

NEET Result 2024 Controversy Live Updates: Members of Left-affiliated students' unions held a protest near the Education Ministry, news agency PTI has reported. Read more here.

NEET Result 2024 Controversy Live Updates: Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalim posted on X on Sunday that his party was the first to foresee the hazards of NEET and undertook a large-scale campaign against it.

“After coming to power, we constituted a High-Level Committee headed by Justice AK Rajan to study the impact of NEET-based admission process. The Committee's report, based on extensive data analysis and inputs from students, parents, and the public, has been published and shared with various State Governments to expose NEET's anti-poor and anti-social justice nature,” he said.

The Tamil Nadu Assembly had passed a bill seeking the exemption of the state from the medical entrance examination and it is awaiting the President's approval.

NEET Result 2024 Controversy Live Updates: The NTA said around 1,600 candidates from six centres were given wrong question papers and two to three candidates got torn OMR sheets, which resulted in the loss of time. The concerned candidates went to the High Court requesting for re-exam or compensatory marks. A committee of experts was formed to look into the issue, which recommended that they (students) should be compensated for time loss.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Sunday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the alleged irregularities in the NEET UG exam, saying he would be the voice of the students in Parliament and raise issues related to their future.

“Narendra Modi has not even taken oath yet and the scam in NEET exam has devastated more than 24 lakh students and their families. 6 students from the same exam centre topped the exam with maximum marks, many got such marks which are technically not possible, but the government is continuously denying the possibility of paper leak,” he said on Sunday, ahead of Narendra Modi's oath taking ceremony. More on this story here.

Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh on Sunday slammed the central and state governments for paper leaks, changing answer sheets and cheating in various recruitment and competitive exams. He said that first, the question papers of various recruitment exams were leaked continuously, followed by the matter of changing the answer sheet of the PCS (J) exam, and now anomalies in the NEET exam have been exposed. Read more here.

NEET Result 2024 Controversy Live Updates: According to Live Law, petitions have been filed in the Supreme Court of India challenging the grace marks awarded to around 1,600 students. The petitioners have also caught the top court's directions to scrap the results and hold the test again, Live Law has reported.