No changes to Neet for now
Six lakh students had passed the Neet, out of the 11.74 lakh students who appeared for it.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to nullify the Neet examination held this year and to stay the on going counseling for medical admissions across the country.
A Bench of Justices Dipak Misra, A.M. Khanwilkar and M.M. Shantanagouder told senior counsel Indira Jaising, Subramonium Prasad and other counsel appearing for a batch of students that it would be difficult to disturb the admission process particularly when over six lakh students had passed the Neet, out of the 11.74 lakh students who appeared for it.
“We can consider rectification later”, the Bench said and issued notice to the CBSE seeking its response to the petitions.
Ms. Jaising submitted that the Neet examination should be nullified and a re-examination conducted as students were given different set of questions for English, Hindi and eight other languages.
She said what had been done was thoroughly unlawful as every candidate had not been tested similarly and it had affected the all India rankings.