NEET 2021: Plea filed in SC to cancel NEET-UG, result may get postponed
NEET 2021 result date might get postponed as a plea has been filed in the Supreme Court for cancelling the medical entrance exam over the alleged paper leak incident.
The controversies around the National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) refuse to die down. The latest is, a plea has been filed in the Supreme Court by various NEET aspirants seeking cancellation of the NEET-UG 2021 conducted on September 12 and demanding a fresh exam. This can delay the NEET 2021 results.
Students are demanding a re-exam due to the alleged paper leak incident in Jaipur where eight people were arrested including one candidate and one invigilator. In another incident, CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) nabbed a person from Nagpur in the NEET 2021 cheating scam.
The plea has asked CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) and respective state police departments to submit their fact-finding reports and NTA (National Testing Agency) to submit an affidavit within a week on why the NEET exam should not be cancelled and conducted again.
The petitioners have claimed that the primary investigation suggests that the medical entrance exam was ‘irreversibly vitiated’ due to the use of fraudulent means. The aspirants demand the court's intervention on this matter and also a fresh exam in the interest of the deserving and genuine candidates.
Will NEET 2021 get cancelled?
It now depends on the proceedings of the case in the Supreme Court. In case, the apex court dismisses the plea, there will be no change in the present schedule. In another case, if it accepts the plea, then the further proceedings of the case will reveal the merit of the case and it will also delay the NEET result declaration process till a verdict is announced.
Also, if the Supreme Court accepts the plea and NTA provides enough evidence that these cases were only a few incidents and the sanctity of the paper was not disturbed then the paper will not get cancelled and if the NTA fails to provide enough proof then the court can cancel the exam and order a re-exam.
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