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Informist, Thursday, Jul 18, 2024

 

NEW DELHI – The Supreme Court today directed the National Testing Agency to publish the results of all National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (Undergraduate) students on its website, city-wise and centre-wise, masking the identity of the candidates, by Saturday.

 

The top court was hearing a batch of petitions seeking cancellation of the entire medical entrance test exam, re-test for a fair and secure exam, and investigation into the alleged irregularities in this year's entrance test.

 

The order came after the petitioners' complaint that they were unable to ascertain the centre-wise marking pattern since the agency had not published the results of all the candidates. The petitioners said the candidates were at a "handicap" as neither the Central Bureau of Investigation's status report on the probe had been shared with them nor had the test results been published.

 

Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta, appearing for the agency, opposed the petitioners' demand. He said the test results were the private property of the students and the entire results were never published.

 

"The fact there was a leak in Patna (in Bihar) and Hazaribagh (in Jharkhand) has been admitted," the bench headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud responded. "Question papers were disseminated. Students are at a handicap because they don't know the results. We want the students' identity to be masked, but let us see centre-wise what was the (marking) pattern."

 

The top court said it wanted to find out if the paper leak was confined to Patna and Hazaribagh or if it was widespread.

 

The petitioners had moved the apex court after allegations of paper leaks and potential malpractices during the medical entrance test exam held on May 5. The National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test for undergraduate students was taken by 2.3 mln people across 4,750 centres in 517 cities, including 14 cities overseas. The entrance test was for admission to undergraduate medical education at all medical institutions. The apex court will hear the case next Monday.  End

 

Reported by Surya Tripathi

Edited by Rajeev Pai

 

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