From the exam to the court's 'supreme decision'… timeline of the NEET paper case
Jul 24, 2024, 07:47 IST
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NEET-UG Paper Leak Case: NEET-UG-2024 exam will not be held again. The Supreme Court has given this decision. The court has said that it has compared the results of the last three years regarding the exam. Sufficient evidence of rigging in the exam has not been found.
Timeline of NEET-UG paper case.- Image Tv9
The Supreme Court has given its verdict in the NEET-UG-2024 paper leak case. Rejecting the petitions seeking cancellation of the exam and re-examination, the court has said that there is no need to conduct the examination again. Sufficient evidence of rigging in the examination has not been found. Let us know what happened in this case from the examination to the decision?
- On February 9, NTA released a notification for submission of online applications for the exam.
- The exam was held on 5 May at 4,750 centres in 571 cities. 14 of these cities were from abroad. About 24 lakh students participated in it.
- The result of the exam was declared on June 4. 67 candidates got 100% marks in it.
- On June 11, the Supreme Court had sought response from the Central government and NTA on a petition seeking re-examination on the basis of alleged paper leak and other irregularities.
- On June 13, the Center told the court that it has cancelled the grace marks given to 1,563 candidates who appeared in the exam. These students will have the option of appearing in the exam again or cancelling the grace marks given to them.
- On June 14, the court sought response from the Centre and NTA on a petition seeking a CBI probe into allegations of paper leak and other irregularities.
- On June 18, the court said that if there is even 0.001 percent negligence in the examination, it should be dealt with. On June 23, the education department informed that out of the candidates who got grace marks, 813 have given the exam again.
- On July 1, the NTA declared the revised results. After this, the number of candidates securing top ranks in the exam decreased from 67 to 61.
- On July 5, the government told the Supreme Court that cancelling the exam would endanger the future of lakhs of honest candidates. In the absence of evidence of large-scale privacy violations, doing so would not be right.
- On July 10, the government told the Supreme Court that there was no indication of large-scale irregularities. Nor had any local group of candidates benefitted.
- On July 18, the court directed the NTA to release the exam centre and city wise results by 12 noon on July 20. While doing so, the identity of the candidates should not be revealed.
- On July 22, the court asked IIT-Delhi to form a team of experts. This team had to tell the correct answer to a physics question asked in the exam. It also asked to submit its report on July 23.
- The court heard the case on 23 July. It heard all the parties. It also looked at the reports of IIT Delhi and CBI. It also looked at other aspects. After this, it refused to cancel or re-conduct the exam.