Plea To Cancel NEET-UG 24 : Supreme Court Poses Queries To Centre & NTA- Live Updates (July 18)

CJI : How many seats in pvt?

Hooda : 52,000. So total, One lakh eight thousand. If re-exam happens, the total number is one lakh eight thousand and not twenty three lakhs.

CJI : If we accept your wider submission, we would like your assistance on which are the lines on which the investigation must happen.

Hooda : The handicap I have is that they have not declared the entire results. UPSC declares the result of the entire people. At least NTA should have declared the results of the one lakh people who would get admissiion.

CJI : How many seats in Govt medical colleges.

Hooda : 56,000.

CJI to Hooda : You have to show us that the leak was so systemic and affected the entire examination so as to warrant the cancellation of the entire exam.

Sr Adv Narender Hooda starts submissions in the lead petition (Vanshika Yadav and others v Union)

CJI :Today an investigation is going on. If what CBI has told us is revealed, it will affect the investigation. People will become wise...

Hooda : If it can be redacted..

CJI : Redaction may not be possible.

Solicitor General : Hope that your lordships have seen the second status report.

CJI says yes.

Another counsel also says the candidate's OMR sheet was replaced.

CJI : We will hear the first matter.

One counsel says that the candidate's OMR sheet has been replaced.

CJI : Why don't you go to the HC?

Counsel : HC has held against me..

CJI : You have to file a SLP.

CJI : Will give priority to the NEET matter because of the social ramifications.

Supreme Court takes the NEET matters for hearing.

CJI : There is some urgency in the NEET matters, several students are waiting. We will open the NEET matter today.