Publish NEET-UG 2024 Results For Every Centre Online, Don't Disclose Students' Identity: Supreme Court To NTA

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the National Testing Agency (NTA) to publish the score of the NEET-UG exam but without disclosing students’ identity.

In its order, the court instructed the central agency to publish the marks scored by the aspirants on their website city-wise and centre-wise masking the identity of the candidates.

According to Live Law, the results will be uploaded by 5 pm tomorrow.

“What is happening is the fact that there is a leak at Patna and Hazaribag is admitted..the question papers had been disseminated. We want to ensure whether this was confined to those centres or widespread. Students are handicapped because they don’t know the results. We want the student’s identity to be masked but let us see centre-wise what was the mark pattern,” the publication quoted the CJI.

While listing the matter for July 22, the CJI said that the student’s identities must be masked. “You can have dummy roll numbers, so no student’s identity is disclosed. But let us see, centre-wise, what was the mark pattern.”

The Supreme Court delivered its order as it is hearing a batch of pleas in connection with the NEET-UG 2024 paper leak case on Thursday.

A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, Justices J B Pardiwala, and Manoj Misra was hearing the matter.

Citing a conflict of interest arising from the director of IIT Madras’s membership in the NTA’s governing board, Advocate Hooda claimed that the data analysis report from the institute could not be trusted.

As many as 131 students are asking for a retest, while 254 are opposed, according to the Solicitor General.

Meanwhile, the investigation into the alleged irregularities in the NEET-UG examination continues as the CBI questioned four AIIMS Patna students on Thursday, officials said.

They said three MBBS third-year students and one from the second year were taken to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) office for questioning in connection with the case.

They were picked up from their hostel rooms in the presence of senior faculty members, who had been informed that the students were needed for the probe, the officials said.