NEET UG 2024: In a major development in the matter of NEET-UG 2024, the hearing of the case by the Supreme Court has been completed, raising a plethora of critical issues pertaining to the examination. The court’s review was based on the report furnished by IIT Delhi, actually lying at the very core of the argument over the integrity of the examination.
No Evidence of Systematic Leak in NEET-UG 2024 Exam
While the proceedings were underway, the Supreme Court itself made it clear that the evidence presented doesn’t point to a systematic leak of the NEET-UG question paper. The court clearly opined that, based on the current data and principles, there stood no justification for the cancellation of the entire exam.
One of the main issues that emerged from the argument by senior advocate Sanjay Hegde, who appeared for the petitioner, was the claimed accessing of the examination paper by students on May 4, memorising the answers, but doing very poorly in it. Hegde submitted that this kind of systematic leakage must take a much longer period than what is alleged in the present case, during which this was improbable.
Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud’s Proposal
It is in this background that the Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud offered a solution in an important proposal that can solve the controversy related to one question of the Physics section. He said that full marks should be awarded to a student who has chosen option 4—the one IIT Delhi found correct and no student who chose option 2 should be penalized. This would, therefore, remove the confusion without any injustice to the students at the hands of examiners.
Fourth Option Confirmed as Correct Answer
Earlier in the week, Chief Justice Chandrachud and Justice J.B. Pardiwala asked the Director of IIT Delhi to constitute a panel comprising three subject experts and get the Physics question re-examined as to what was the right answer. The IIT Delhi report, filed in the top court on Tuesday afternoon, endorsed that the fourth option was the correct answer, based on the panel’s conclusion.
The way the Supreme Court is handling the NEET-UG case surely has to prove its commitment toward the goals of fairness and transparency in this examination process. It is steering the controversy toward a solution by targeting certain points of concern and putting forward proposals for an equanimous solution, not allowing the examination system to be dented at all.