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NEET-UG row: SC refuses to defer counselling

During the course of the hearing on Friday, a lawyer for one of the petitioners requested the top court that the counselling from July 6 be postponed, as the Supreme Court had already scheduled to hear the batch of petitions challenging the NEET-UG exam on July 8. Students and various educational institutions had moved the Supreme Court and various State High Courts after the prestigious NEET-UG examination mired into alleged paper leak, irregularities, malpractices and others seeking various directions and orders to NTA. Yesterday, the top court stayed the proceedings of pleas filed before various State High Courts in the same issue, after hearing the plea filed by the NTA and issued notice on the agency's plea in connection with this year's National Eligibility-cum- Entrance Test exam. There are more than 35 petitions, including a fresh petition filed by a group of 20 students, who had appeared in the medical entrance exam, in the Supreme Court, seeking a direction for scrapping of the NEET-UG 2024 exam and an apex court-monitored probe by the CBI or any other independent agency into the alleged irregularities in the test held on May 5.

New Indian Express

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