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

SG : I will demonstrate when my turn comes.

Hooda continues - refers to statement recorded by Bihar police of an accused Anurag Yadav. Says that statement shows paper leak happened on May 4.

CJI : You got 161 statements?

Hooda : Statements are getting circulated in social media

CJI : Mr.Solicitor, you engage a private courier company (to despatch NEET papers)?

Hooda : They have transported the papers in an e-rickswah without any guard.

SG : These are OMR sheets not question papers.

Hooda refers to report about arrest of principal of Hazaribagh school.

Judges are discussing.

Hooda : Telegram videos indicate that on 4th May, the question papers were circulating. It was the original question papers. The time is 9 AM. The NTA wants this Court to disbelieve. The date and time they show is not a date and time which can appear in a Telegram channel. It is a watermark. It is not a date and time. Date and time appears like the one which is appearing in page (in the petitioners' submission).

Hooda disputes NTA's stand that Telegram videos are doctored.

CJI : When was it put on Telegram channel?

NTA : Our stand is that it is a doctored video.

SG : Telegram channel has an inbuilt feature that if there is a change, it will be reflected. From that, it is known that this was circulated after the exam.

Hooda : NTA does not talk about this in the written note filed yesterday.

CJI : Idea of somebody doing this is not to make a national charade of NEET exam. People were doing it for money. Therefore anybody who is making money out of it won't circulate it mass scale.

Hooda : Given the nature of social media, it is impossible to accurately determine the exact spread of the leaked papers and the beneficiaries.

Hooda says there are photographs of e-rickshaw carrying the papers and the Principal of the school was arrested for part of the leak. He was part of the NTA and city coordinator, Hooda says.

Hooda : Dissemination of the leaked paper was happening on the May 3 itself. Evidence of Telegram videos show that the solved papers were being circulated on May 4 itself.