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

Hooda says the IIT Madras anayltics based on 23 lakh students performance is not reliable and that the analytics should have been done on the basis of 1 lakh eight thousand candidates who would get admissions.

Hooda : If data anayltics is to be run for 23 lakhs, at what stage, if 10,000 or 20,000 people have sneaked into it, you cannot detect any abnormality. The correct procedure was to apply this process to 1 lakh eight thousand people.

Hooda continuing : I am starting with a handicap. I do not have the results. Because of that I cannot have the data analytics. One of the directors of IIT Madras is a member of the Governing Body of the NTA. They have run the data analytics taking the entire number.

Sanjay Hegde : Anybody above 50 percentile qualifies. 164 is the cut-off mark. About half the petitioners have the qualification to be alloted a seat. Admission is a dynamic process, some many not opt for medicine, some may go for IIT. The figures may come down.

Solicitor General : There are 131 students who are not falling within 1 lakh eight thousand, who want a re-test and there are 254 who are falling within 1 lakh eight thousand who are opposing the re-test.

CJI : What is the cut-off mark for the 56,000 (govt seats) and the 1 lakh eight thousand?

CJI : What is the minimum mark received by the petitioners?

CJI to NTA counsel : Tell us how many students are involved in the petitioner.

Sr Adv Hegde : Some who are within the 1 lakh eight thousand are also before the Court since they want govt seats.

CJI : My brother Justice Pardiwala would like to know, out of the 1 lakh eight thousand, how many are petitioners before us?

Hooda : That NTA can say.

Hooda : Segregation of untainted is not possible...

CJI : Conceptually, if you can establish that, then the whole exam will go.

CJI : There is a problem in that argument. Merely because out of 23 lakh only 1 lakh will get admission, we cannot order a re-examination. Re-examination has to be on a concrete footing that the entire exam is affected.

Hooda : The stake is of only one lakh people not 23 lakh.