New Delhi. The petitions related to the NEET UG exam controversy case were heard again in the Supreme Court today. A bench of Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, Justice J.B. Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Mishra heard more than 40 petitions related to this case, including petitions filed by the National Testing Agency (NTA), the government body conducting the exam. CJI Justice Chandrachud said that it has not yet been proved that the NEET UG paper leak was so widespread that it spread across the country.
Some students challenged the NTA’s decision to give marks for two options of the same question. On this, the CJI said that two options of a question cannot be correct, either one can be correct or the other. Along with this, the CJI sought expert opinion from IIT Delhi. The bench has asked the director of IIT Delhi to form a committee of 3 experts today itself to decide the correct answer and has sought a reply by 12 noon tomorrow. After that the hearing will resume.
Advocate Sanjay Hegde, representing one of the petitioners, said that though the paper was leaked from Hazaribagh, it was caught in Patna, so we cannot say from where else the paper was leaked. Hegde argued that when you suspect cancer and the reports are inconclusive, the best solution is to undergo chemotherapy. You cannot take the risk of cancer cells growing. Today we do not know how many cancer cells have accumulated in the system. The truth is that we cannot tell the candidates that it was a fair exam. Can we say that everyone got the same marks as they deserved?