No NEET Re-Exam, Supreme Court Says “Can’t Conclude Sanctity Breached”

New Delhi: 

There will be no re-test for the 2024 NEET-UG exam, the Supreme Court said Tuesday, reasoning there is no data to suggest a “systemic breach” or that the “sanctity” of the examination, following two localised leaks of the question paper, had been affected.

The court admitted the fact the question paper was leaked is “not in dispute”, but said there is no material on record at this time to conclude “the result of the exam was vitiated or (that) there was a systemic breach in the sanctity of the exam”. “Data on record is not indicative of a systemic leak of the question paper, which would lead to the destruction of the sanctity of the exam…” the court said.

The court was hearing a clutch of petitions demanding the NEET-UG test – a qualifying examination for undergraduate medical courses – be either held again or cancelled.

“NEET-UG Re-Test Will Have Big Consequences”

The bench, led by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, said an order, therefore, to order a re-test for 23.33 lakh aspiring medical professionals, many of whom would travel hundreds of kilometres from hometowns to exam centres – would have “big consequences”.