GUWAHATI: The Supreme Court on Thursday, July 18 directed the National Testing Agency (NTA) to upload on their website the marks obtained by all the students who appeared in the NEET-UG 2024, city-wise and centre-wise, after masking the identity of the students.
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The NTA has been given time till Saturday noon to complete this exercise, Live Law, a legal news portal, reported. A bench comprising CJI D Y Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra passed the order while hearing a batch of petitions seeking to cancel the NEET-UG 2024 exam over alleged paper leak and malpractices.
While adjourning the further hearing till Monday, July 22 the court directed the NTA to publish the results, after the petitioners complained that they are not able to get the centre-wise marking pattern.
"The petitioners have submitted that it would be appropriate if the results of the NEET-UG 24 exam is published on the website so as to bring about some transparency on the centre-wise marks obtained by candidates.
“We direct the NTA to publish the marks obtained by students in the NEET-UG 24 exam while at the same time ensuring that the identity of the students is masked. The results should be declared in relation to each centre and city separately."
Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta vehemently opposed the direction to publish centre-wise results. However, the CJI orally said, that there has been an admitted paper leak in centres of Patna and Hazaribagh. To ensure that whether the leak remained confined to those centres or had spread across other cities and centres, it was crucial to dissect the complete data of results.
Though the bench initially directed the NTA to publish the results by tomorrow 5 PM, Senior Advocate Naresh Kaushik, for the authority, requested more time, since the results of over 23 lakh students have to be processed. Accordingly, the bench extended the time till Saturday.
The court held a day-long hearing in the matter, raising several pertinent queries and making crucial observations.
