CNN Central News & Network–ITDC India Epress/ITDC News Bhopal: Following are the highlights of the Supreme Court’s verdict on Tuesday that rejected pleas seeking cancellation and re-test of the controversy-ridden NEET-UG 2024 examination.
* SC holds there is no evidence on record to conclude that NEET-UG 2024 was vitiated on account of systemic breach of its sanctity.
* SC, instead of reserving the judgement, dictates operative parts and says there is an urgent need to provide certainty and finality to the dispute which affects the career of over 2 million students.
* SC says data on record is not indicative of a systemic leak of question paper which would indicate a disruption of the sanctity of the examination.
* SC says ordering re-test would be replete with serious consequences for over 24 lakh students who appeared in the exam.
* SC says ordering a re-test would cause disruption of admission schedule, have cascading effect on the course of medical education and impact availability of qualified medical professionals in the future.
* SC says directing a re-test would be seriously disadvantageous for the marginalised groups for whom reservation was made in allocation of seats.
* SC trashes submissions that leak was systemic in nature, and coupled with structural deficiencies, left the court with the only option of ordering re-test.
* SC says the fact that leak of NEET-UG 2024 question paper took place in Hazaribagh and Patna is not in dispute.
* SC says if CBI probe reveals an increased number of beneficiaries, suitable action can be taken against such students.
* SC says no student, who is revealed to have been in this fraud or a is a beneficiary, would be entitled to claim any vested right in continuation of admission.
* SC accepts report of IIT Delhi experts on a controversial physics question, asks NTA to revise merit list accordingly.
* SC allows candidates, who have personal grievances, to move the respective HCs after withdrawing their pleas from apex court.
