Agreeing to examine the plea, a vacation bench headed by Justice Vikram Nath sought a response from the NBE, the Medical Advisory Committee (MCC) and others.
“Issue returnable notice on July 8, 2024. In the meantime, the respondents may file their counter-affidavits,” ordered the Court, also comprising Justice S.V.N. Bhati.
During the hearing, the National Testing Agency (NTA) said it is not a necessary party to the litigation and can be removed from the set of parties. “The PG (entrance examination) is conducted by the National Examination Board,” said the NTA lawyer.
After hearing the submission, Justice Bhatti said, “You may put it on record. When we pass an order, we will use our discretion under the Supreme Court rules and remove you from the set of parties.”
The plea filed directly before the apex court attacked NBE's “arbitrary act and decision” of not publishing the question paper, answer key and answer sheet for NEET-PG 2022 and not allowing any option to re-evaluate the score even after knowing that there were "serious discrepancies" in the scores of candidates appearing for the exam in the recent past, i.e. for NEET-PG 2021 and NEET-PG 2022.
"There are no other competitive exams in India, with such lack of transparency and complete and one-sided flow of information as NEET-PG," the plea filed through lawyer Charu Mathur said.
He added that NEET-UG conducted by NTA provides candidates with the option to challenge the answer keys and several other prestigious exams including IIT-JEE, CMAT, CLAT and judicial services exams also provide the option to challenge the keys. of answers.
However, the newsletter published by NEET-PG 2024, following the trend of previous years, prohibits requests for access to the answer sheets and prohibits the petitioner from exercising her constitutional and legitimate right to access her answer sheets even under the Right to Information (RTI). ) Act of 2005, the plea said.
“Issue returnable notice on July 8, 2024. In the meantime, the respondents may file their counter-affidavits,” ordered the Court, also comprising Justice S.V.N. Bhati.
During the hearing, the National Testing Agency (NTA) said it is not a necessary party to the litigation and can be removed from the set of parties. “The PG (entrance examination) is conducted by the National Examination Board,” said the NTA lawyer.
After hearing the submission, Justice Bhatti said, “You may put it on record. When we pass an order, we will use our discretion under the Supreme Court rules and remove you from the set of parties.”
The plea filed directly before the apex court attacked NBE's “arbitrary act and decision” of not publishing the question paper, answer key and answer sheet for NEET-PG 2022 and not allowing any option to re-evaluate the score even after knowing that there were "serious discrepancies" in the scores of candidates appearing for the exam in the recent past, i.e. for NEET-PG 2021 and NEET-PG 2022.
"There are no other competitive exams in India, with such lack of transparency and complete and one-sided flow of information as NEET-PG," the plea filed through lawyer Charu Mathur said.
He added that NEET-UG conducted by NTA provides candidates with the option to challenge the answer keys and several other prestigious exams including IIT-JEE, CMAT, CLAT and judicial services exams also provide the option to challenge the keys. of answers.
However, the newsletter published by NEET-PG 2024, following the trend of previous years, prohibits requests for access to the answer sheets and prohibits the petitioner from exercising her constitutional and legitimate right to access her answer sheets even under the Right to Information (RTI). ) Act of 2005, the plea said.
