BREAKING: Will Not Stall NEET-PG 2022 Counselling, Can't Put Students In Jeopardy : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on Monday said that it will not interfere with the counselling for NEET-PG 2022, which is scheduled to commence from September 1.

A bench comprising Justices DY Chandrachud and Hima Kohli made this oral remark when  a counsel mentioned a matter pertaining to NEET PG, seeking some clarification.

"Counselling is to start from 1st September. Kindly list it before that", the counsel submitted.

"We'll not interfere. Let the NEET PG counselling go through.Don't stall it anymore", Justice Chandrachud said. The judge added "we cannot put the students in jeopardy".

The matter which was mentioned was a writ petition challenging the decision of National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBE) to not release the answer key and question paper for NEET-PG 2022. The petitioners alleged serious discrepancies in the scores of the candidates who appeared for the test.

The petition has been filed by doctors who upon completion of their MBBS course have registered under the State Medical Council. Their grievance is that though there are serious mismatches in their NEET-PG 2022 scores, the NBE is not granting re-evaluation.

The petition prays that directions be issued to NBE to release the question paper and answer key for NEET-PG 2022; provide options to the candidates to re-evaluate their papers; to declare Clause 9.7 and 10.4 unconstitutional; permit candidates to challenge answer keys. It seeks the Court's indulgence in constituting a High Power Committee to examine instances of alleged discrepancies in scores to ensure fairness and transparency in the evaluation mechanism. The petition further implores it to frame guidelines for publishing question papers and answer keys after the examination. It also seeks direction to NBE to upload individual OMR answer sheets in login account along with the question paper and the corresponding answer key, immediately after the examination and to provide the answer key and question paper to the candidates for NEET-PG 2022, upon them filing a RTI application.

On August 8 as well, the Court had observed that it will not stay the counselling.