NEET-UG 2024 Supreme Court Hearing Live Updates: Final Verdict on Exam Likely Today, Session to Begin at 10:30 AM – News18

NEET-UG 2024 Supreme Court Hearing Live Updates: Huge Increase in Candidates A ‘Red Flag’

CJI: How many students appeared in 2022, 2023, and 2024?
Hooda: 17.5 lakh appeared in 2022, while 20.50 lakh appeared in 2023 and 23.33 lakh appeared in 2024.
CJI: 33% increase from 2022 to 2024 as opposed to an increase in students, the top numbers have gone up by 300%.
Hooda: The number of candidates in the 550-720 category is five-fold.
CJI: Can this be an indication of a leak?
Hooda: It is a red flag.

NEET UG Counselling: Number of Seats Available Across Medical Colleges in India

According to data from the Ministry of Health, Tamil Nadu has the most MBBS seats in government medical institutes (5,275), followed by Maharashtra (5,125). Overall, there are 1,08,940 MBBS seats in India.

NEET-UG 2024 Supreme Court Hearing Live Updates: CBI Arrests First-Year MBBS Student For Being Part Of ‘Solver Module’

On July 19, the CBI detained a first-year MBBS student from Ranchi’s Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) for allegedly assisting in the solving of the stolen question paper in the NEET-UG paper leak 2024. Surbhi Kumari, a first-year student, was arrested following two days of rigorous questioning by the CBI. Kumari was reportedly the fifth member of the’solver module’ that arrived in Hazaribagh on the morning of May 5, the day of the NEET-UG test, to solve the paper stolen by Pankaj Kumar, officials claimed.

NEET-UG 2024 Supreme Court Hearing Live Updates: Highlights From Last Session

— According to Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, 254 students are opposing the retest.

— The SC bench has sought clarification from NTA on students who changed exam centre and are in the top 108,000.

— Out of the 15,094 new registrations, around 12000 students have failed the exam while only 44 will get admissions, the NTA counsel, and the SG told the CJI.

— SC examined the Hazaribagh case. A trunk containing question papers was found travelling on an e-rickshaw on May 3 in Hazaribagh and it was received by the principal of the school. The CBI has arrested the principal. “There is a systemic failure in conducting the exam by NTA. Failure is multi-dimensional,” he said.

— The idea of somebody leaking the paper is not to make a national charade of the NEET exam. “People were doing it for money. Therefore anybody who is making money out of it won’t circulate it mass scale,” the CJI had observed.

NEET-UG 2024 Supreme Court Hearing Live Updates: NTA Uploads Marks of All Students After SC Order

In the previous hearing, the CJI instructed the NTA to submit all students’ marks by Saturday (July 20) noon and instructed that the students’ names be concealed. “You can have dummy roll numbers, so no student’s identity is disclosed.” The CJI had stated that the outcome should be disclosed individually for each centre.

NEET-UG 2024 Supreme Court Hearing Live Updates: CJI Directs Bihar Police to Submit Inquiry Report

On July 18, the Supreme Court instructed the Bihar Police to submit their inquiry report. “We would like to see the Bihar police and EoW report,” the CJI stated.

NEET-UG 2024 Supreme Court Hearing Live Updates: Why is Centre, NTA Against Retest?

In prior affidavits filed before the Supreme Court, the Centre and the NTA stated that cancelling the exam would be “counterproductive” and “seriously jeopardise” lakhs of honest applicants in the absence of any evidence of large-scale breach of confidentially. On May 5, more over 23.33 lakh students took the NEET-UG exam at 4,750 locations in 571 cities, including 14 overseas.

NEET-UG 2024 Supreme Court Hearing Live Updates: Change of Exam Centre Not An Option, NTA May Tell SC

The NTA is expected to notify the Supreme Court that ‘change of exam centre’ is not a possibility for applicants. Instead, they may only request for a ‘change of exam city’, which the agency may still refuse. The NTA’s answer will respond to the court’s question on how many candidates choose to change exam centres for the NEET-UG 2024

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NEET-UG 2024 Supreme Court Hearing Live Updates: Scale of Paper Leak Much Lower Than Expected, Reveals CBI Probe

A CBI investigation into the NEET paper leak case has revealed that the scope of malpractice may be considerably smaller than previously thought, with fewer than 150 students involved, a top agency official told CNN-News18. “It is only in the Patna-Hazaribagh case that there is any evidence of the question papers being stolen. Here too, only one centre seems to have been affected. Country-wide, the total number of students affected could be less than 150… even within this number, the aspirants who got to know of the question paper ahead of the exam could be even fewer,” they said.

NEET-UG 2024 Supreme Court Hearing Live Updates: Counselling From July 24

The NEET UG 2024 counselling process will start on July 24 and last around two to three months, according to the Solicitor General during the hearing on July 18.

NEET-UG 2024 Supreme Court Hearing Live Updates: NTA Files an Additional Affidavit with Supreme Court

In its additional affidavit, NTA disputes the petitioners’ claim that the IIT-Madras Director, who prepared the data analytics report, had a conflict of interest, as stated by Live Law.
The NTA states that the Director of the IIT that holds JEE(Advanced) in a given year is an ex-officio member of the NTA Governing Body. However, the NTA’s fundamental tasks are carried out by its Managing Committee. The governing body’s responsibility is limited to policy considerations

NEET-UG 2024 Supreme Court Hearing Live Updates: Re-Examination Only If Sanctity Was Affected On A Large Scale

The Supreme Court ruled on July 18 that any decision to re-conduct the contentious NEET-UG 2024 must be based on clear evidence that the sanctity of the entire test has been jeopardised. “Re-examination can only be on a concrete footing that the sanctity has been affected on a large scale,” stated a bench led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud.

NEET-UG 2024 Supreme Court Hearing Live Updates: Final Hearing Today

More than forty petitions against the NEET paper leak and anomalies in the medical entrance test will be heard by the Supreme Court today, July 22. The issue would be heard on priority at 10.30 am by a bench led by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud.