Supreme Court dismisses plea alleging discrepancies in NEET-UG scores

Supreme Court of India has dismissed a writ petition alleging tampering of NEET-UG OMR scorecards by the National Testing Agency.

The top court of India has dismissed a writ petition filed by six students alleging tampering of the NEET-UG OMR scorecards by the National Testing Agency (NTA). The petitioners had alleged that there was a huge difference in the final results and the marks calculated by them on the basis of the answer keys.

The court has dismissed the writ petition noting that NTA had shown the OMR sheets to the candidates. NTA's counsel informed the court that these candidates were invited to the NTA office and were allowed to inspect the OMR sheets and the scanned copies of the OMR sheets were sent to the email ids of the candidates as well. The OMR sheets have petitioners original writing with the invigilator's sign.

A bench comprising Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice AS Bopanna said, "It cannot prima facie be suggested that there was an act of tampering or manipulation in the back office of NTA," as reported by Live Law.

The bench also noticed that only 6 candidates out of 15.44 lakh candidates who appeared for NEET-UG on September 12 have raised this grievance.

While referring to the question paper leak incident and other scams related to NEET-UG, the petition reads, "There are malpractices and corrupt practices which are undergoing on at the levels which the innocent, deserving and meritorious petitioners cannot imagine which has resulted in arbitrariness and rejection of meritorious candidates and as such is violative of their rights under Article 14 of the Constitution of India."

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