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NEET UG Result 2024 Controversy: A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court on Monday demanding the cancellation of the result of the National Entrance cum Eligibility Test (NEET) declared on June 4 for admission to MBBS course. The petition has alleged large-scale irregularities in the NEET result and has sought an order to conduct a fresh entrance examination. Another petition filed in the Supreme Court has also challenged the decision of the National Testing Agency (NTA) to give grace/compensation marks to the students.
The petition filed in the Supreme Court has alleged that there are large-scale irregularities in the NEET UG results declared on June 4. The petition filed by Telangana resident Abdullah Mohammed Faiz and Andhra Pradesh resident Dr. Sheikh Roshan Mohiddin has also alleged arbitrariness in giving grace/compensatory marks to the students.
The petitioners have claimed themselves to be working in the interest of students in the petition. The petition states that the high marks of 718 and 719 out of 720 obtained by many students are 'statistically impossible'. The petition states that the decision by the National Testing Agency to award supplementary marks due to delay in the examination is a malicious attempt to give backdoor entry to some students. The petition alleges that 67 students from the same examination centre getting 720 out of 720 marks strengthens the suspicion that the result is not fair. The petition states that there are many complaints about the final answer key published by the National Testing Agency on April 29. The petition also cited widespread complaints of question paper leak in the examination held on May 5 and sought cancellation of the result and holding of a fresh examination.
The present petition states that two petitions have already been filed in the Supreme Court seeking cancellation of the exam on the grounds of paper leak. It also said that on May 17, the apex court had issued notice to the National Testing Agency and others in this matter and sought their response, however, it refused to stay the declaration of the result.
Apart from this, another petition filed in the Supreme Court has challenged the decision of the National Testing Agency to give grace/compensatory marks to students in the National Entrance cum Eligibility Test. Jaripet Karthik, a student appearing in NEET, has filed this petition. Filing a petition directly in the Supreme Court under Article 32 of the Constitution, the decision of NTA to give grace marks to 1563 students has been challenged. This mark was given to those students whose examination center started late in the examination. Meanwhile, advocates Y. Balaji and Chirag Sharma on behalf of the petitioner have contacted the Supreme Court registry and demanded an early hearing on this petition.
The petition states that the use of normalisation formula by NTA for awarding grace marks is not only wrong but also illegal, arbitrary and violative of Articles 14 and 21 of the Indian Constitution. The petition also states that the normalisation formula cannot be applied in the present case as the purpose of the exam is to ascertain subject knowledge but the formula awards marks not on the basis of ascertainment but on the basis of perception of knowledge.
The petition also said that if the normalization formula is possible to be extended, it can only be extended to the number of questions that may remain unanswered in proportion to the loss of time, given that each question has equal weightage, hence equal time distribution can be assumed to answer each question. The petition said that since the exam was conducted in offline mode, there is no standard to accurately measure the loss of time. It also said that no evaluation or report has been disclosed by the authorities to justify the grant of grace marks in case of alleged loss of time. The petition said that the NTA has not put any evaluation report, opinion or CCTV footage in the public domain which makes it clear that the late start of the exam led to loss of time to award grace marks to 1563 students.
