Kerala: NEET exam supervisor calls frisking complaint 'frivilous'

A day after a group of female examinees, taking the NEET 2022 medical entrance exam in Kerala’s Kollam district, filed a complaint about being forced to remove their innerwear during the frisking procedure at the exam centre, the exam supervisor has dismissed the accusation. According to reports, the exam centre’s superintendent has told the National Testing Agency that the complaint is “fictitious” and has been filed with “wrong intentions.” The centre superintendent and the independent observer as well as the city coordinator, Kollam, told the exam conducting body that they “did not find any such incident happening in the centre”. The letter written to NTA by the independent observer stated, “I have not directly observed anything like stripping of undergarments as alleged in the complaint.” Similarly, the letter shot by the centre superintendent to NTA stated, “I was vigilant in the conduct of all procedures and in my knowledge no bad incident has taken place in the centre on the day of the exam. Female students forced to remove undergarments at test centre during NEET exam in Kollam, Kerala On July 18, approximately 100 female students in Kerala had to face severe embarrassment and humiliation on Sunday when they were forced to remove their undergarments before attempting the NEET 2022 medical entrance exam.