Kerala NEET Row: High Court defers hearing of plea seeking standard protocol

NEET 2022: Kerala High Court has deferred the hearing of the plea seeking standard protocol for conducting examinations to next week.

In the recent incident in Kerala's NEET exam centre where female candidates were asked to remove their innerwear before entering the examination hall, the Kerala High Court has deferred the hearing to next week.

The plea has also sought free counselling for the affected students as well as compensation for the "trauma" and "mental agony" suffered by them, as reported by NDTV.

A division Bench of the High Court deferred the hearing in the matter to the first week of August. The plea also seeks direction to the National Testing Agency (NTA) to permit the affected female candidates to re-appear for the exam as they might not have been able to focus on the test that day in view of the "traumatic" situation.

What happened so far in the case?

Sever arrests took place in connection with the NEET frisking incident on July 17 at an exam centre in Kerala after one of the affected students complained to the police. Of the seven arrested, five were women and two were men of whom one was a NEET observer and the other an exam coordinator. The government is also taking the case seriously. 

Three of the arrested women worked for an agency hired by the NTA and the remaining were employed by the private educational institute at Ayur, where the incident took place. All seven were released on bail by a lower court last week. The NTA has established a fact-finding committee to visit Kollam.

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