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

CJI : As matter stands now, 61 students get 720/720, out of whom 44 are students who got extra marks for the two correct options for a question. So the number really is 17..

NTA counsel says that the 44 were given marks for the questions having one extra answer as per NCERT booklet.

CJI : 67 students who secured 720/720...

SG : That is reduced after re-exam..

CJI : How many of them were in 1563?

NTA : 44

CJI : Out of top hundred, AP got seven, Bihar seven, Gujarat seven, Haryana four, Delhi three, Karnataka 6, Kerala 5, Maharashtra 5, TN 8, UP 6, WB 5...So it appears that the spread in the top hundred marks is distributed across the country, 12 states and one UT.

SG : First 100 rankers are spread across 95 centres located in 56 cities within 18 States/UTs.

Hooda : In the first instance, they indulged in pick and choose to identify 15063. One classic example is Bahadurgarh. And they got a chance to appear again!

CJI : Out of that how many make it to one lakh eight thousand?

Hooda : That is an interesting question that they have not answered.

CJI : We will ask.

Hooda : To hush up the matter, they have a re-exam.

CJI : Mr.Hooda, that issue has attained finality. This Court has upheld the re-examination.

Hooda : They have not come clean on that. First they said there was delay in distribution. When they were caught, then they said we are having a re-exam and don't go into the issue of grace marks. The question who they gave grace marks to 15063 odd people has not been examined by this court.

Hooda : Entire country was given paper from SBI but in Hardayal school paper from Canara bank was given. The principal says that the instruction was that let the students do Canara bank paper. They gave grace marks to everyone in the school. Because of that extra marks, 6 people got 720/720, two people from the same centre got 718.

Hooda : One Hardayal School from Bahadurgarh has a special story...there were 6 people...What happened in Bahadurgarh is glaring. NTA never disclosed that the question paper taken from Canara bank was distributed. There was no delay. The principal of school is on record that they collected papers from SBI and Canara Bank and that the.

SG : That is a different issue...

Hooda : Allow me to say...they are getting agitated..

SG : The purpose is to show that the toppers are spread over. Just to show that and that there is no abnormal spike in any particular centre.