A bench of Justices Hrishikesh Roy and SVN Bhatti is scheduled to hear the case on Monday, July 22, 2024.
The senior lawyer's remarks came at a time when he was seeking a Supreme Court order to re-examine those who had passed the said examination.
During the hearing of this batch of petitions against irregularities in the NEET examination, senior lawyer Sanjay Hegde quoted the famous poet Firaq Jalalpuri's couplet to sum up the petitioners' case for re-examination.
Appearing before a three-judge Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, Hegde said: “This case can be summed up in a poem – You don't talk about debt here, tell me why the team fights, I'm not fooled by secrets, it's a matter of your leadership.”.
The senior lawyer's remarks came at a time when he was seeking a Supreme Court order to re-examine those who had passed the said examination.
He also pointed out to the bench that the NTA had maintained its stance that “there was no leak” until the Supreme Court intervened in the issue.
“The NTA kept denying the leak and later said, OK, we can retest 1,563 students. It was not until June 22 that the personnel were changed and the CBI took over the investigation… and there was an organized gang, There is a history of leaking these types of documents before,” Hegde said.
“You can't believe the competitive exam with 61 top players,” he further argued.
Meanwhile, a bench comprising Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra directed the director of IIT Delhi to constitute a three-member expert committee and express its opinion on the correct answers to the NEET-UG 2024 MCQ questions, which the national testing body granted for both options Fraction.
The court passed the direction after hearing a number of petitioners challenging the National Testing Agency's (NTA) decision to consider two options as the correct answers to the question.
The court also asked for expert opinions to be submitted to the court by 12 noon tomorrow. The hearing will also continue tomorrow, with submissions from the central government and the National Testing Agency (NTA).
