Plea To Cancel NEET-UG 24 : Paper Leak Happened Before May 4th, Says CJI; Live Updates From Supreme Court [July 22]

CJI : Systemic flaws, we will put to SG to tighten up....

CJI to Hooda : You have pointed out issues like no clarity on when the OMR sheets are sealed, time gap between the exam and the deposit of OMR sheets, lack of address verification..

CJI : Also Mr.Hooda, in many professional exams, students do choose some centres. Because there is a perception that the marking is lenient in those centres. That may not be a ground to cancel the entire exam.

Hooda : As regards paper leak, the direct evidence is before the Court. Since petitioners is not privy to the investigation, we can fall back only on the circumstantial evidence.

CJI : So the alternate hypotheses that because of the systemic failures it can possible spread..

Justice Pardiwala : Let us examine in this manner, whether the students who performed well in Sikar, was it due to the paper leak?

Nedumpara intervenes..

Justice Pardiwala scolds Nedumpara, says his intervention is bad manners.

Hooda : There is systemic failure..

Justice Pardiwala : Mr. Hooda, there are two ways of looking. Yes, there was a paper leak. Is it your argument that systemic failure led to paper leak?

Hooda : No.

J Pardiwala :At this point digressing from the issue of paper leak, to what extent we can go into the issue of systemic failure?

SG : What we have analysed, we have examined how many students appeared in previous years. In fact, for 2024, the success rate for Sikar has gone down.

Hooda : Why did the girl in Gujarat, who got high NEET marks but failed in class 12, go all the way to a centre in Belagavi?

CJI : What is the success rate in that centre?

SG : 6%

Hooda : In places like Sikar, Mahendragarh, where the concentration is happening, the OMR sheets are being manipulated. The private invigilators have OMR sheets after 5.20. What prevents them from filling up the sheets and depositing it at City Centres after 3 hours?

CJI : If there are loopholes, we will address that.. Basically you have concentrated on Hazaribag, Patna...some lapses in Bahadurgarh.....where do you demonstrate a systemic failure?

CJI to Hooda : Are you challenging this NEET or are you appearing for people who don't want NEET at all?