OPINION | NTA’S CLAIM THAT NEET PAPER WAS NOT LEAKED: FACT OR FICTION?

The Supreme Court on Friday sought responses from the Centre and National Testing Agency on a petition seeking a CBI probe into allegations of question paper leak and other irregularities in the NEET-UG exam. The vacation bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta, while hearing a PIL filed by Hiten Singh Kashyap, said the petition will be taken up with all other pending petitions on July 8, after the summer vacation was over. On Thursday, the NTA had told the apex court that it has cancelled grace marks given to 1,563 candidates, and they have been asked to appear for retest on June 23. However, parents of protesting NEET candidates said, cancelling grace marks of these students will not solve the problem. They alleged that NEET question paper was leaked in several cities, and the entire exam should be conducted afresh. This seems to be the only solution.  But NTA officials are unwilling to admit that there has been any instances of question paper leak. 

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