CJI: Are we still in the process of identifying students who were beneficiaries? If we are [...], we will have to cancel the exam. Cancellation of exam of 24 lakh students is a matter of extreme...
SG: See Godhra...students who have been identified...their results have been withheld. Show cause notices have been issued
CJI: In the country, how many students whose results have been withheld owing to leakage which took place? Where are they situated?
CJI: We have to identify the beneficiaries. Anybody who has breached is not entitled to...more than the number of beneficiaries, we want to know what action was taken by govt and NTA
CJI: We'd like to know the whole process. Then the nature of FIRs which have come forth. What is the point of time at which leak took place...and what are the action which GoI and NTA have taken to identify wrongdoers and/or beneficiaries
CJI: Is it NTA's case that there was no leak? This fact can't be disputed. You don't cancel a whole exam only because 2 students engaged in malpractice. Therefore, we must be careful about the nature of leak
CJI: Matter gone to CBI. but how many FIRs registered?
SG: One qua paper leak in Patna. Others qua local malpractice. According to them, 6 FIRs have been registered
CJI: One thing is clear - leak has taken place. Question is, how widespread is the reach?
SG: We examined the pattern of 100 top ranking students. Analysis comes that they were distributed among 95 centres in 56 cities in 18 states/UTs
CJI: I'm not sure whether we should be doing this...or an expert committee. We also want to understand the pattern of NEET itself
CJI: If leak is taking place through Telegram/Whatsapp...electronic means...then it spreads like wildfire. On the other hand, if leak was on morning of 5th, then the time for spread was limited. This concerns 20 lakh students
CJI: There are certain red flags...67 candidates scoring 720/720...in previous years, proportion was very low
CJI: Secondly, change in centres...if someone registers at Ahmedabad and suddenly goes to...We have to separate grains from chaff so that limited re-test can be carried out for red flag category
CJI: One more imp aspect is modality in which leak took place. If modality is though social media, it is a possibility that leak is wide