The Supreme Court, on June 20th, issued notices to the Centre and the National Testing Agency (NTA) regarding petitions seeking the transfer of NEET-UG 2024 cases from various High Courts to itself. It has also stayed proceedings in the High Courts concerning these cases. Addressing a petition from students in Meghalaya who allegedly lost 45 minutes during the NEET-UG exam, the Court has scheduled a hearing for July 8. These students sought inclusion in the group granted grace marks and a re-exam option on June 23.
In a related development, according to media reports, Anurag Yadav, the NEET candidate arrested for involvement in result irregularities, has confessed that the leaked question paper he received was identical to the actual exam paper. In a confession letter, made public by India Today, 22-year-old Yadav, who is the nephew of an engineer at Bihar’s Danapur Town Council (Danapur Nagar Parishad), disclosed that his relative Sikandar Prasad Yadavendu informed him all exam arrangements had been finalized. Yadav further stated in the letter that he received both the leaked NEET exam question paper and its answers. During the exam, he noted that the official question paper he received matched exactly with the one provided by his uncle.
On June 19th, the Union Education Ministry requested a report from the Bihar Police’s Economic Offences Unit regarding the suspected irregularities in the administration of the NEET exam in Patna.
